Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local private universities and the public institutions in neighboring states have entrance requirements that are too stiff or costs that are too high for most D.C. students--over 90 percent of whom are black and most of whom are poor. And, added to the number who don't go on to college is the large group of people (about 25 percent of each class) that drop out before high school graduation...
Often, white executives pool their assistance. One successful instance is Rochester Business Opportunities Corp., which grew out of a proposal made by Eastman Kodak. R.B O.C. provides technical expertise in everything from plant layout to accounting, has set up a free night class in business management at a local college. So far the organization has helped 24 Negroes to start businesses. Xerox teamed up with R.B.O.C. and a militant Negro organization named FIGHT to establish a Negro-owned company to manufacture transformers and metal stampings. Xerox will buy $500,000 worth of them yearly...
...central issue in the strike, community control of schools in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, began taking shape two years ago. In September 1966, angry ghetto residents made one of the first concerted efforts to take over a local school--I.S. 201 in East Harlem...
...Foundation decided to test the I.S. 201 formula. In July 1967, Ford gave the City money for three trial districts--one around I.S. 201, one in Manhattan's lower east side, and the third in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. All the districts were to remain within the school system, but local governing boards, elected by the school communities, gained almost complete control over their district's schools...
Teachers also fear, and with some justification, that in some areas community control really means black control. Alarmed by anti-Semitic remarks from some ghetto leaders, the largely Jewish union fears capricious harrassment and dismissal by local boards which are more concerned with race than competence...