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...then Mound Bayou got some help from Washington. In 1967 the Office of Economic Opportunity gave Tufts University funds to establish a community health center half a mile from the hospital. The center began referring its patients to the institution, and by 1972 more than $5.5 million worth of OEO funds, mainly in salaries, were being put into the area's faltering economy...
...receiving regular federal funds, they became interested. Local officials tried to take over the Mound Bayou program -and its funding-but failed. State agencies attempted to rescind the hospital's license on the ground that it failed to meet state standards. They were stymied when Mound Bayou obtained OEO funds to renovate some of its most outmoded facilities...
...Representatives. "When we pass a bill to provide legal aid for the poor," she asked her fellow representatives, "does it mean that we should also finance, using millions of dollars, research centers aimed solely at changing social policy? The Harvard research center actually had attorneys, who were paid with OEO funds, doing the research which led to their joining as co-sponsors with the NAACP in the Detroit segregation case... Meanwhile, Congress is overwhelmingly opposed to busing." Then, finishing with a flourish, Green declared that "these offices have become the cutting edge for social change in this country...
...currently before the Supreme Court, which, if decided in favor of the center's position, would cause a virtual revolution in elementary and secondary school education as many city school systems would be forced to bus children across city lines and into neighboring suburbs. Founded in 1969 through an OEO grant to the University, the center spends about half its time in helping to litigate class action suits, of which the Detroit case is the one with the most potentially far-reaching effects...
...consumer law center was established in 1969 through a $200,000-OEO grant to the Boston College Law School. Since then, like many of the other research units, the consumer law center broke off from the college and set itself up as an independent corporation. Like the Harvard center, it has played an active role in litigation. Last year, Hesse says, about 500 suits were initiated on the basis of the center's work. In the area of repossessed automobiles alone six cases now on the way to the Supreme Court are dependent in some way on assistance provided...