Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed to drive to his job. A hostile crowd gathered, and the two boys got into a scuffle with the cops. Mrs. Frye jumped on one officer's back, was dragged off, then leaped on another patrolman. Finally, all three Fryes were taken to jail. Soon every Negro slum dweller in Watts heard rumors that the family had been brutally manhandled...
...Government-financed neighborhood centers run by the county legal-aid society have done as much business in three months as they expected in a year. Oakland now hopes to double its $60,483 federal grant. In case after case, Oakland's centers have stopped collection agencies from attaching slum dwellers' salaries-thus halting job loss, family breakups and welfare problems that wind up costing taxpayers twice as much as a little preventive...
...halt such "conspiratorial" competition, the slum lawyers have filed a federal antitrust suit seeking injunctions and $450,000 in treble damages. The first suit of its kind demands a hard look at possible inequities. But in the long run, a decision that supports the. neighborhood service is likely to help the poor become more prosperous-and boost business for all U.S. lawyers...
Calling Washington "our partner," McKeldin appealed for widespread federal aid to the cities for anti-poverty and urban renewal programs. However, he opposed the construction of high-rise apartments to house displaced slum-dwellers. He noted Baltimore's success in the use of city-owned houses and walk...
Room to Prank. By comparison with a city slum, an Appalachian holler offers an infinitely rich, exciting life, which mountain folk extol in a courtly tongue directly descended from their Scots-English ancestors, who first penetrated the region two centuries ago. Children have creeks to fish in, plenty of room to "prank," as their parents say. Last hog-killing time, several of the Handshoe boys dried a hog's bladder, filled it with peas to make a giant-size rattle. Then, relates Floyd's wife Dollie, still shaking with laughter at the memory, they "took and tied...