Word: self-help
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Parker said that the future improvement of the black people in the United States depends on "black capitalism and programs of self-help." Blacks should work through the American system and become entrepreneurs, he said...
...Orleans militant group called Thugs United has won financial aid from the city's staid Chamber of Commerce for black self-help programs. Milwaukee has a "Summerfest" of rock festivals and fashion shows. In Cincinnati, Richard Bedgood's black Checkmates group organized a series of summer leisure programs in the ghetto. Says Bedgood: "Everyone was real happy. Like man, they brought jazz groups in, they brought the symphony in, we had plays, we had rock groups. Practically every night they had something going. There was just no time to riot." Leon Atchison, assistant to Detroit's able...
...acting as "a creation of the community it serves, WIN represents the most basic form of community self-help, that of improving employment opportunities", and thereby hopes to overcome the standardization and impersonality of other welfare programs...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Operation Breadbasket" is an examination of Chicago's black self-help project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written, narrated and directed by Robert (/ Spy) Gulp...
...four-day journey to publicize ten volunteer self-help projects on the West Coast, her first official solo trip since Inauguration Day, Mrs. Nixon was a model of warmth and graciousness-flashing her smile and her topaz brown eyes at shy children, embracing self-conscious elderly women, and offering her hand to hesitant black men. She coolly endured heckling at one stop, seemed oblivious to the herd of newsmen pursuing her along her 6,000-mile itinerary, and gratified anxious project directors with her insatiable curiosity-and her ability to attract publicity...