Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated behind a pile of groceries and waving a package of Velveeta as she talked, Mrs. Gladys Aponte, a Puerto Rican who heads a consumer group in Brooklyn's bleak Bedford-Stuyvesant district, told of the results of two days of comparison shopping a fortnight ago. On every one of 20 standard items, she said, prices were higher in Bedford- Stuyvesant than they were in nearby Flatbush, a middle-class area; totaled up, the difference was as much as $1. Making the arithmetic even more onerous is the fact that people in the slums spend...
...Gopen, the House's Employment Counselor, personifies its style. Short, moustachioed, he covers his genuine feeling for social work with the air of a fast-talking, hard-hitting businessman. As he yells at a group leader for bothering him, Gopen carefully takes down the name of a crippled Puerto Rican who cannot find satisfactory employment. Gopen will see him tomorrow...
...internal Puerto Rican affairs are concerned, both the Centro and SNAP have squared off, though not in unison, against another power in the South End on the matter of urban renewal...
...Puerto Ricans are not yet a great force in Boston's elective politics; a few thousand votes talk, but not too loudly, to the politicians. Kevin White, whose South End headquarters was across Tremont Street from the Centro, received unofficial endorsement from DeJesus, Molino, and other Puerto Rican leaders. But, in the main, these leaders have felt too weak to be partisan in city politics...
Rather, until their numbers grow, the Puerto Ricans will concentrate on being a noisy, complaining pressure group when they want the attention of the politicians. As the Centro, the Puerto Rican element in SNAP, and MAWS are demonstrating, pressure group politics can carry people a long...