Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller had expected some response to his decision, but not the response he got. The reaction in the Roxbury community, he notes with a look of pride, was "incredible." After only seven months of publication--"what a hullaballoo." The telephone began to ring, letters flooded in and a community "Save the Banner" committee was formed. Miller himself sought, and found, support from Harvard students. Even Boston merchants began to have some second thoughts--enough so that after a four week rest, the Banner was back in print...
...this "hullaballoo" over a weekly newspaper in one section of a city 'flooded with newspapers? Miller himself has some very strong convictions about what his paper is trying to do in Roxbury, and journalism is hardly his primary interest. He is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law School who never had anything to do with newspapers before. "I went to the library and read some books on publishing, and they seem to have been pretty helpful," he explains. He returned to Roxbury, where he was born, brought up, and is now well-known, not as a publisher...
...community centers, and the parades of acronyms (ABCD, BRA, OEO, etc.), and they are confused." No one explains these programs to them. Crucial meetings and decisions go by while the people they most effect know nothing about them. To the outside world this looks like apathy but, says Miller, "If I didn't believe the theory of Negro apathy was unequivocally wrong, I wouldn't be here. I have no doubt the Negro community will respond to any program it is convinced is beneficial." The problem is reaching them to do the convincing...
...picked Boston as a testing and proving ground for Negro interest, and as a training ground for white liberals? "That's the beautiful thing," says Miller beginning to get excited. Boston is a pivotal city. It has a greater possibility to solve the problem of its Negro population than any other city." In 1940, there were 20,000 Negroes in greater Boston; by 1970, there will be at least 100,000, but even so, the problem is not unsolvable as it is in Harlem...
...greater Boston there will always be pockets of Negro housing, Miller believes, but at least there will be open housing. It is in an area like this, with Negro pockets, that good Negro press representation and coverage is so vitally important, Miller says. If the population is not to slip into the ignorance that brings frustration on the inside, and charges of apathy from the outside, there must be good communication. Boston, with its suburbs, has the money and the plans for urban renewal; it has the interested liberals; and it also has a Negro population of workable size. Miller...