Word: self-help
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...Smith is a black militant who still digs Stokely Carmichael but has discarded revolution as impractical. "There are greater forces than violence and confrontation," he says. Smith's chosen instrument was Operation Bootstrap (see BUSINESS), a black-owned, black-managed self-help corporation that now runs two African-style dress shops, one in a white suburb, plus a clothing factory, a gas station, a printing company, and a school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says...
...young and old. It is that Negroes are not really part of the mainstream of American enterprise, and that they should be brought into it through the classic means: ownership of business. Richard Nixon has called for a mixture of Government loans, tax incentives, private business aid and Negro self-help to create "black capitalism." Hubert Humphrey, urging all of that but with greater emphasis on Government aid, has stumped for "black entrepreneurship." He declares that the Negro has a basic right to be an employer as well as an employee...
...SELF-HELP. Negro groups have also initiated a number of businesses. A few months ago, Charles Bussey, a Negro operator of a furniture-restoring firm, rounded up 25 other Negro investors to form San Francisco Container Corp, They put up $20,000, then raised another $180,000 from the Bank of America and the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Next month, in San Francisco's Hunters Point ghetto, they will open a plant that will make chipboard and cardboard cases...
...self-help idea has spread to 600 other prisoners who have enrolled in service organizations that are part of Warden Patterson's rehabilitation program. Among the clubs is an authorized chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which this fall is sponsoring a charity football game between the prison team-the "Rockbusters" and the semipro Colorado Colts. The proceeds will go to a parolees' halfway house and a judge's youth program. The convicts have become so respectable that last summer they were invited to the Colorado state fair where about 70 of them set up their...
...guidelines are necessarily vague, for the situation is unprecedented. The key words seems to be flexibility and old-fashioned, personal politics. Mutual interest may provide a powerful incentive--for the Ed School researcher, an access to materials of his trade, and for the self-help group, assistance in teaching, in drawing up applications for grants, in conversing with the white establishment...