Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Reagan as governor, all of the state pressure groups would be forced to continue their unresolved struggles indefinitely. Grape workers and growers, slum residents and police, conservation clubs and developers, students and administration -- all would find themselves frustrated by a governor unable to provide the legislative direction necessary to resolve any conflict...
...89th was the first Congress to address itself-in its legislative thrust as well as its membership-to the U.S. as a nation of city dwellers. Largely concerned with "the real dynamics of urban life," in President Johnson's phrase, it marched against the problems of slum housing, overcrowded streets, underemployed minorities, inadequate schools, polluted air and water, rising crime, complicated tax structures and shrinking recreational facilities. And it produced its prodigious array of social and economic legislation in spite of the tension and upheaval caused by a costly war. Indeed, the 89th went further than any other...
This great disparity has created a profound hostility between the low-income Negro and his more affluent, well-educated, middle-class brother. Demoralized, alienated and apathetic, the slum Negro is bitterly jealous of those he scornfully calls "white niggers." The middle-class Negro, on the other hand, is troubled by the riots and the chants of "black power," which he knows hurt his cause. The gulf between the two is widened by the fact that the better-off Negro tends to demonstrate too little concern for those he has left behind. Almost alone among all U.S. ethnic groups, Negroes have...
...that, compared with whites, the average Negro child actually attends newer schools and has newer textbooks but is less likely to have modern scientific equipment or competent teachers. The Negro needs good teachers even more than whites because of greater deprivation in his family background. Eighth-graders in Negro slum schools, for example, commonly read at sixth-grade levels. The IQ of the average Harlem pupil drops from 90.6 in the third grade to 87.7 in the eighth grade. An extraordinary 67.5% of all Negroes fail the armed forces' pre-induction mental tests (v. 18.8% of the whites...
...reading the law literally, has underwritten the construction of many luxury buildings. Even if such buildings replace slums, they offer no new housing for uprooted residents, who must move to other slum neighborhoods. And some of the projects, like the Barrington Plaza apartments in a high-rent section of Los Angeles, are not even near blighted areas...