Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign, Lindsay promised the city's one million Negroes and half a million Puerto Ricans a better deal. He talked about restructuring the poverty program, suggested setting up neighborhood city halls, and promised to work for equal city services in all areas. Negroes responded by giving him more votes than they had given to any other post-war Republican candidate...
Second, Lindsay fought uphill battles to establish two controversial institutions to protect the rights of minority groups: a Police Department review board and a set of neighborhood city halls. The review board, now in operation, can only recommend disciplinary action against police officers. It is, nonetheless, vehemently opposed by the Conservative Party and the Policeman's Benevolent Association, which have collected more than 55,000 signatures to put the issue on the November ballot. Lindsay's pet reform, the establishment of neighborhood city halls to handle residents' problems and complaints, was temporarily frustrated by city legislators. The Board of Estimate...
Haryou-Act, Harlem's much publicized anti-poverty agency, is also expanding its already firm power base through block-by-block organization. In recent months, each block in the neighborhood has elected a representative and these representatives expect to be a powerful political pressure group...
...Sheraton Hotel where the former King aide spoke is one of the taverns he referred to. Its doors are usually fastened back. The voices and the jukebox mingle with the noise outside. The bar's dark interior seems just an extension of the sidewalk, a part of the neighborhood...
...small number of teachers work there, including a few mothers from the neighborhood and some teenagers. Palmer is happy with the growth of the library, but admits that it isn't yet attracting Negroes in large numbers...