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...paper, few black separatists have sounded more intractable in the past than Playwright LeRoi Jones, 33, who was found guilty in October of having prowled through Newark's riot area last summer armed with a brace of revolvers. "We must make our own world, man," he wrote recently, "and we cannot do this unless the white man is dead. Let's get together and kill him." Yet when the fires started up this month in Newark, Jones got together with Mayor Hugh Addonizio and city leaders of both races to search for peaceful political solutions...
More Than Khe Sanh. In Newark, where in last summer's rampage 23 persons lost their lives and the authorities expended 13,319 rounds of ammunition, there were no casualties and only one shot was fired-by a policeman, as a warning into the air. Mayor Hugh Addonizio crisscrossed the riot area in an unmarked prowl car. Some 200 Negro youths wearing the pink, silver and white badges of the United Community Corp., Newark's antipoverty organization, also patrolled the ghetto-and to better effect. The kids made an impressive contribution to cool; so did a courageous "Walk...
...Negro leaders saw the rioting as an opportunity to force white store owners out of the ghetto. Such tactics only enraged most Negroes, many of whom lived above burned-out stores, as well as many others who could then find no place to buy food for their families. In Newark, Timothy Still, Negro president of the United Community Corporation, which helped dampen ghetto violence there, threatened: "We are going to take care of the arsonists ourselves, if we catch any. When we're through with them, we'll turn them over to the police. If any man burns...
...Newark Concordat. Thus, in what Kilson, himself a Negro, calls "almost a concordat," such militants as LeRoi Jones and Willie Wright walked the streets of Newark to urge calm after King's murder. A few weeks before King's death, city hall and the Negro community agreed to a compromise in the urban-renewal dispute that helped spark last summer's uprising. City hall's price: the militants' promise to help preserve order. This new realism-on both sides-is seen by Kilson as the next phase of the civil rights movement, analogous...
...their annual $16 billion flow of investments toward slum areas, over $350 million has been committed for a total of 26,588 housing units and 7,551 permanent jobs. Among the projects: a $4,500,000 low-income cooperative rising on nine acres of cleared land in debris-strewn Newark, $8,500,000 to construct 530 single-family houses in Chicago, and $15 million to $20 million to build apartments in Harlem...