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...statement released in the afternoon, OBU recommended instead that black students channel their efforts into projects to build the black community such as the Newark election, the Cambridge Black Liberation Front Project for a year-round Black People's library, and the May 19 Solidarity Day Celebration of Malcolm X's birthday...
Politically, you're going to see many more black elected city officials. Baltimore could have a black mayor. So could Detroit. Newark, Los Angeles and Kansas City. We're coming into politics the same way the Irish did. We're a group with a lot in common with each other. The Irish used politics to lift themselves up as a group, controlling New York at one time. Boston at another...
...Johnson, neither was he consumed by the vicious, almost pathological hatred for the man that swept much of the movement. Cowan was taking his knocks from a remote extremity of the system while the typical liberal-turned-radical marched on the Pentagon and contemplated the fires of Detroit and Newark. The news he got from the home front was half-expected corroboration of his miniature battle. "We were learning," he says, "to trust our own anger...
ECOLOGY is too new a science to have examined the ghetto systematically. Yet it is clear that the country's environmental blight most severely affects the millions who are marooned in black inner cities-Hough (Cleveland), Harlem (New York), Roxbury (Boston), the Hill (Pittsburgh), the Central Ward (Newark). In Chicago, which has been called the most segregated city in America, roughly 1,100,000 blacks make up almost one-third of the population and are overwhelmingly confined to black poverty areas. According to Sociologist Pierre de Vise, research director of the city's hospital planning council, those areas...
...ENFORCEMENT. Blacks make up 38% of the population in Atlanta, 27% in Chicago, 39% in Detroit, 40% in Newark and 63% in Washington, D.C. By contrast, the proportion of black policemen in those cities is 10%, 17%, 5%, 10% and 21% respectively. Of the nation's 300.000 lawyers, only 3,000 are black-one of the smallest black ratios of any U.S. profession. Of the Government's 93 U.S. Attorneys, none is black; the most recent (Cecil Poole of San Francisco) has just been replaced by a white. Thurgood Marshall sits on the Supreme Court...