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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking and hiring isn't enough. There have got to be results. Ed School surveyors aren't welcome now along Tremont Street. There has been too much research and too little action. "The community is sick and tired of talking," says Reed angrily. "Harvard gets the ideas and writes them up in jargon for grants from Washington, and they're hiring people, and they have their own thing. The black people who had the ideas are still being beat down...
Generally, Roxbury wants more Harvard aid--"a pilot project here, a pilot project there" isn't enough--and it wants aid on different terms. "Do they go and drive the cars," asks Bryant Rollins, director of Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs...
...phenomenon isn't really so strange. Though the Ed School and Roxbury seem unlikely allies, they've been linked by an overriding bond: the horrible deficiency of ghetto schools and the central role of education in focussing ghetto discontent...
...racism, repression, poverty and the draft." Most of the 200,000 young Americans who took part in a day-long "student strike" by cutting classes the day before the marches just sat around on campuses, strumming guitars and singing folk songs. Remarked a San Francisco State professor: "Isn't it great that all these people came out to celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday...
...guaranteed annual income. About the latter, I point out two things: the Indiana campaign seems to indicate a certain reticence on the part of the junior Senator from New York in presenting those new ideas to a hostile audience. What is good for blacks in Gary apparently isn't good enough for those Hoosiers more comfortable with appeals to "law and order" and assurances that Kennedy wouldn't consider unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam. Kennedy, the man who as Attorney General helped put the most racist judges in the nation on various tribunals in the South, is much experienced in tempering...