Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...
Jumping the gun by a year, Republican candidates from Kentucky to New Jersey proclaimed that the pivotal issue in last week's statewide elections would be President Johnson's waning popularity. As it turned out, the voters were concerned with local questions-notably taxes, education and racial controversies-more than Administration policies, domestic or foreign...
Having said all this, I would want to add that the object of struggle against this terrible war is elsewhere than Harvard. To focus obsessively, as some have shown signs of doing, on this community and its local problems is a solipsistic and fundamentally irrelevant diversion from the political arena, where even now one may yet strike blows for peace. Martin Peretz Instructor in Social Studies
Iglesias and a new assistant, Alfredo DeJesus, picked education as the next mobilizing issue. Last spring they marched 40 children and their mothers down to the headquarters of SNAP (South End Neighborhood Action Program), the local branch of the War on Poverty. The group demanded that SNAP give them funds to start their own version of Head-start, a tutoring program for pre-school children. Reginald Eaves, director of SNAP, gave his consent, and appropriated $700 to pay for textbooks and supplies. Several mothers volunteered as teachers, and the "Action School" opened in a local church...
...Youth Alliance is young and growing. Its chief recruiter, Frank Wright, goes into the local pool halls to reach potential members. Alliance's independence has given the Roxbury teenagers a sense of their own dignity and power...