Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
...difference between this corporation and others is that its "stock-holders" all live in one geographic area. And, above all, it is controlled one-man, one-vote by the neighborhood. Anyone in the neighborhood can become a member simply by signing up--and has voting power equal to anyone else...
Once the maelstrom began to swirl along the streets, the burgeoning sense of black identity took hold of staid citizens, who once would have shown up merely for the spectacle. In Pittsburgh, Moses Carper, 35, the scholarly, bearded editor of a Negro neighborhood paper, declared: "When the first window shattered it was like a bell ringing. I was running in the streets, running from cops, running from my own fears. I had to know this involvement, and when it came, it was like a release...
...Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store for 34 years. "Anyone who reopens or rebuilds in this neighborhood must be crazy," says Sheldon sadly...
David Skinner, vice president of the Polaroid Corporation, said yesterday, "We do anything we can to save neighborhood property. Then we work with the community in deciding what to do with it." In this instance, the community decided to renovate the existing building to provide low-rent housing facilities for two Cambridge families. Mr. Skinner said a lot on Harvard St. is also being turned over to the Cambridge community for redevelopment...