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...nation's most enterprising experiments in private schooling for the dropouts of the ghetto. Harlem Prep was born in 1967 out of a mixture of inner-city violence, white guilt and black hope. At a time when 65% of New York's black and Puerto Rican students were dropping out before finishing high school, not even the vast promises of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation seemed to be providing enough immediate help. So Eugene Callender, a Harlem minister and local executive director of the Urban League, recruited a white college dropout and three nuns and opened...
Looking back on his 25 years on the board of the museum, Coolidge noted how things have changed: "Involvement, no matter how you measure it, has greatly increased. Our membership, for example, has septupled. We are now doing much more for the black and Puerto Rican communities than in the past...
...sciences and fully occupied with training qualified students, have had to let minority students succeed or fail virtually on their own. One of the most notable exceptions is Harvard University. Since 1969 it has been running a special summer cram course to teach science and biology to black, Puerto Rican and Chicano undergraduates from other colleges. The purpose of this unique enrichment program: to help members of minority groups get into medical school-and stay there...
...make business loans. Yet Black Capitalism's impact on the economic status of America's blacks has been minimal. While thousands of nonwhite firms have been created as a result of the Government effort, only a minuscule number of new jobs have been opened for black, Puerto Rican, Indian and Chicano workers. Racial minorities, which comprise 17% of the U.S. population, still control only about 4% of the nation's businesses, and these firms have less than 1% of total business receipts. The figures have not changed perceptibly in the past four years...
Nardelli also had a fleet of cars outside his headquarters ready to take Puerto Rican voters to the courthouse in the event that some were denied the right to vote because of a supposedly invalid registration. During the day, Nardelli's people transported over 150 people to the courthouse in upper Manhattan so that they could get orders allowing them to vote...