Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mayer described a pilot project in his own district aimed at developing methods that can increase achievement and motivation among Negro and Puerto Rican children...
Since leaving Cuba, Ray has worked for the Puerto Rican Planning Board, designing low-cost mass housing for rural and suburban areas. He hopes to convince Latin Americans to increase public and private investment in housing and to divert more foreign aid funds to the solution of the problem...
...they had placed more emphasis on the forces behind the rise of Negro extremism and the effect of permanent poverty, on the Negro's response to the compound problem of discrimination and unemployment. Two other omissions mar the book, the failure to adequately discuss the difference between the Puerto Rican's experience and that of earlier immigrant groups, and the neglect of the Catholic attitude toward birth control that limits the effectiveness of welfare programs...
...Baker "recall or wish to state how many people you have referred to a Puerto Rican doctor for the performance of abortions...
...pairing of relatively close schools, setting a maximum of 1½ miles between matched grade schools, 2½ miles between junior highs. The plan would start next September, take as long as three years to complete; it would affect only ten of the city's 31 Negro-Puerto Rican junior highs, only 20 of the 134 segregated grade schools. Heavily segregated schools in Harlem and Brooklyn would be untouched...