Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, scene of heavy Negro rioting last month, racial violence came this time from whites. As 450 civil rights marchers demonstrated for open housing in a lily-white Southwest-Side neighborhood, they were taunted ("White power! White power!") by a mob of 750 whites, who burned twelve of the demonstrators' cars, overturned 22 and dumped two more into a lagoon. At week's end, as 500 marchers returned to the neighborhood for another try, a mob of 7,000 whites taunted them with curses, threw volleys of rocks, bottles and eggs. Injured: March Leader Martin Luther King...
...smashed windows and looted white-owned stores on the city's racially mixed north side. Amid threats of more violence, city officials next day managed to find jobs in private firms for 60 Negro youths. Nonetheless, a building was set afire and more windows smashed in the troubled neighborhood...
...bums, have you ever been in slit trenches?" And along the march's route, another remarked: "The police have to go along with all demonstrations. They know if they didn't there might be a neighborhood-riot...
...fact that reality seems to provide quite a bit less justice for the poor. This concern is at the root of the Office of Economic Opportunity's $25 million program of legal services for the indigent. During the past year, federal cash has funded no-fee "neighborhood law offices" in 28 major cities, with 22 more cities on the way. The nation's second biggest such project has just received an independent appraisal from a dispassionate Philadelphia judge...
Early this year, the Philadelphia Bar Association organized Community Legal Service, Inc., a nonprofit corporation financed by nearly $750,000 in OEO funds. The service proposed to open twelve neighborhood law offices under a 20-man board of directors, including four leading lawyers and seven representatives from the slums. When a sizable minority of lawyers opposed the plan, the issue was turned over to Judge Raymond Pace Alexander of the Court of Common Pleas. After long hearings, Judge Alexander handed down a detailed decision upholding the service as not only lawful but also thoroughly beneficial to the community...