Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WITH LOVE. Sidney Poitier in the role of an engineer-turned-teacher in a London slum school. The interim job becomes a dedication to turning hippies and chippies into grownups...
Like a Dickensian orphan, the Teacher Corps has teetered on the brink of starvation from birth. The program to send federally recruited, federally paid teachers into the nation's worst slum schools came into being in 1965, almost as an afterthought to a larger education bill. Congress left the program's gruel bowl empty of dollars until the following year, then handed it a subsistence diet that was due to run out last week and seemed most unlikely to be replenished...
...tense situation stemmed from an incident which took place last December. FIGHT (Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) is a militant Negro organization, representing 110 Negro groups. It was organized by professional radical Saul Alinsky as a sort of "union" to demand more jobs for unskilled, slum-dwelling Negroes...
...with Love is a British expedition into the blackboard jungle-territory sometimes assumed to be exclusively American. The plot is primer-simple. A refugee engineer (Sidney Poitier) from British Guiana's black, bored jungle takes an interim teaching job in a London slum school to tide him over until he can find an opening in his field. He meets with little race prejudice; the students hate him-less for the color of his skin than for the shade of his opinions. Stiff-necked, prim, always dressed in a starched white shirt, he tries to turn the kids into adults...
...Riot Act. Cincinnati's four-day outburst was the longest of the week, and in many ways the most ominous. Triggered by the arrest of a Negro demonstrator who was protesting a death sentence imposed upon his cousin, Posteal Laskey,* the riots raged not through a Negro slum, but in spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National...