Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iglesias and a new assistant, Alfredo DeJesus, picked education as the next mobilizing issue. Last spring they marched 40 children and their mothers down to the headquarters of SNAP (South End Neighborhood Action Program), the local branch of the War on Poverty. The group demanded that SNAP give them funds to start their own version of Head-start, a tutoring program for pre-school children. Reginald Eaves, director of SNAP, gave his consent, and appropriated $700 to pay for textbooks and supplies. Several mothers volunteered as teachers, and the "Action School" opened in a local church...
Molino sees no chance of the Centro replacing SNAP, either. He points out that next week the first Area Council will be popularly elected in the South End. The Council is a committee of 15 neighborhood men and women, formed to represent the community in SNAP...
...after the MAWS sit-in, young Negroes met in St. Hughes Church to form nightly patrol groups so that the police would not have to come into the neighborhood. With white armbands and orange vests, they walked the streets from nine at night until three in the morning...
Goodin said if the program does leave, several residents of the neighborhood have already offered PBH the use of their homes for a continuation of the program outside of the center. Goodin said the program would remain intact no matter what the center does...
...ages of 6-11. One PBH volunteer and one volunteer from the area work with groups of about six children to widen their range of experience through academic and recreational means. Goodin said he would eventually like to see the entire program taken over by residents of the neighborhood...