Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avenue is the hypotenuse of two triangles. One, bounded on the south by the Mall, is composed of existing federal buildings -the Department of Justice, the Post Office and Department of Commerce. The council now proposes to finish the northern triangle south of G Street, presently a junky commercial slum. The most striking feature would be a daring mezzanine that carries pedestrians over traffic. Lifting strollers over cars, it would bring people into shops, theaters, hotels and restaurants woven around new federal buildings. New commerce could draw Washingtonians, who are building away from the Capitol, back toward the center...
...wrong slum? But by looking out another window, a poet such as LeRoi Jones perceives a malaise beyond sociology...
...endless battle against people who spell his name "Elder") nonetheless becomes chief spokesman for a church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
...Primary schools would be neighborhood schools and thus segregated to the degree that the surrounding housing is segregated. But they would be better schools in ways that would particularly help culturally deficient slum children. Ungraded classes would let youngsters proceed at their own pace, aided by team teaching "and the imaginative use of space, materials and teaching devices." And primary education should be preceded by two or even three years of nursery and kindergarten to give slum kids the basic tools of learning...
...most impressive experiment affecting Negroes anywhere in the U.S.," says Silberman, took place in Chicago's Woodlawn slum. Despairing over the decline of their neighborhood, local clergymen called in Saul D. Alinsky, whose profession is creating large-scale grass-roots organizations in U.S. cities. Alinsky welded together such an effective group that it was able to organize a boycott of white merchants who overcharged the neighborhood. It forced slumlords to clean up their properties; it put the heat on city hall to relieve the overcrowding in the ghetto schools...