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Many people in the city had believed that Boston would escape serious trouble altogether. Though Roxbury is not exactly Beacon Hill, Boston's black belt is far less dismal than most Negro ghettos. It has less than half (6.9%) the unemployment of Cleveland's Hough, 10.5% higher average family income ($4,200) than Los Angeles' Watts, and a relatively stable history, with many Negroes tracing their Roxbury roots back several generations. Yet obviously, as Negro Senator Edward Brooke pointed out, both the resentments and the problems were there in abundance. "The course they decided to follow...
...Cuyahoga River in 1796, it seemed a promised land. Since then, the Ohio city he laid out has dropped an a from its founder's name and most of his Utopian hopes. Last summer's flaming riots in the city's rat-infested ghetto of Hough proved that Cleveland's Negro neighborhoods are as volatile as Watts or Harlem. Scared citizens have taken to muttering about "Communist influence." Yet the Negro community's real problem is as close as the house next door-which in much of Cleveland is as apt to be a hovel...
Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...
...income of the middle-class Negro rises, that of this great mass of Negroes is actually declining. During the 1960s, median family income for Negroes has dropped from $3,897 to $3,803 in Los Angeles' Watts, from $4,346 to $3,729 in Cleveland's Hough district...
...votes of unseating Locher, had an entirely different insight. "Ralph can't comprehend the problem," Stokes said. "He thinks that because he doesn't have his hand in the cash box he's doing a good job. My campaign was for the people in Hough a symbol of hope, a chance to get at least a fair shake. Now they riot because they have no hope and nothing to lose...