Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stadium '69" series is being put on jointly by the Riverside Neighborhood Association, (a citizens' planning group in a neighborhood adjacent to Harvard) and the National center of Afro-American Artists in Boston. The tow groups will split the proceeds from the concerts: the neighborhood association will use its share to promote low-income housing in Riverside, while the center's share will go to promote black culture...
...Shady Hill site, like the neighborhood around it, is now mostly zoned for one-family residential housing: the University will have to get approval from the City's Planning Board. Board of Zoning Appeal and the City Council to build the 300 units there...
...President Pusey personally unveiled plans for a Faculty housing project on the site, but opposition from neighborhood residents, many of them Harvard professors, killed the plans. The residents, led by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, said the housing would take up the last open space in the area, and cause street traffic and sidewalk congestion...
Harvard purposely decided not to ask for the zoning change until this Fall, so that neighborhood residents would have a better chance to give their reactions to the plans, Goyette said...
...address to the Uganda National Assembly, he reproved colonialism for "having let economic interests prevail over human considerations," and condemned "social situations based on racial discrimination" (an apparent reference to apartheid) as "an affront to the fundamental rights of the human person." On a visit to a poor suburban neighborhood, he declared that "rural Africa must be aided in developing its immense agriculture! possibilities. Local industries must replace the exploitation of raw materials. The African villager must become the master of his own destiny...