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...students are the only group working openly for formal community links. In a document circulated among faculty last week, MAT's asked for compulsory student work with educational self-help groups in Roxbury, and also suggested that community leaders attend courses at Harvard and discussion groups with MAT's. Eventually, Roxbury leaders would become full faculty members and, hopefully, exert some influence on the course of Ed School urban activities...
Tens of other self-help groups followed, but the community movement required more than drive and managerial skill: it needed educational expertise. "Before 1965, the ghetto didn't know where to look for guidance," says James R. Reed, Executive Secretary of the New School for Children, and a student at the Ed School. "They naturally began to look at the sources of education. Harvard gained its prominence by the fact of its size...
...finally, it will mean the loss of an opportunity to develop real resources for the community's own self-help effort...
Examples of experiments which move in this direction also exist in New York, in Georgia, in California, and elsewhere. None is fully developed as yet; but all move towards using business self-help skills to provide an expanding source of funds--from profits--to develop the other aspects of the community's social service program...
Were he to apply the same program across the color line, of course, he might see that race conflicts which continually erupt into politics could be short-circuited--in part at least. For a program which met the needs of both the black and white communities, and involved loans, self-help, and very few hand-outs, could be the basis of a new politics--a politics which did not have to tax one group to give hand-outs to another--and a politics which could take a long step towards the political reconstruction of the ideal of community and cooperation...