Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lithuania-born, Brooklyn-bred, the young immigrant was raised in a Williamsburg slum. Later Shahn attended art schools in the U.S. and Europe, and over the years evolved his own distinctive style, winning fame as a painter of biting social comment, somewhere between caricature and fantasy. His work has taken many forms. During World War II, he drew posters for the U.S. Office of War Information. He has also done murals and stage sets. In 1956-57, exercising a kind of poetic license, he lectured on art as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. Many of Ben Shahn...
Public housing has brought the poor more eviction notices than new apartments, and slum dwellers scornfully refer to urban renewal as "urban removal." While Washington lavishes $18 billion a year on a galaxy of welfare programs-to which state and local governments and private philanthropies add another $15 billion-only the crumbs reach the bottom of the heap...
Boston Tea Parties. The poor responded quickly to Community Action -too quickly, as far as many mayors were concerned. In Cleveland, slum dwellers organized, marched on city hall and left dead rats on the steps to dramatize their demand for better housing. In Washington's Lafayette Square across from the White House, 90 Mississippi Negroes pitched tents to publicize their own pitiable housing situation. In Syracuse, an OEO-financed group sent jeering squads to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his 1964 re-election campaign, used poverty funds to bail out demonstrators. When their funds ran out, they sent...
...more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver's OEO turned off the federal spigot for five weeks while HARYOU launched an audit under the supervision-naturally-of Livingston Wingate. As a result, North America's most crowded Negro slum has been largely deprived of the benefits it now desperately needs...
...patterns prevail, any meaningful and democratic integration of U.S. public schools must be achieved by bussing white and Negro children hither and yon. Critics fear that the net effect is a drop in educational quality, since such integrated classes inevitably tend to take the pace of the culturally backward slum kids. This fear, moreover, leads many white parents to move away or send their children to parochial and private schools, thus heightening segregation even more. Long after most goals of the Negro Revolution have been generally accepted, the pro-bussing argument remains an open issue...