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...great, great many "dese, dem and dose" types. "Kids," he calls us. Well these "kids" are the happiest in the world. Don't doubt us for a minute. I live in Williamsburg, in an area called "greatly depressed." So my Brooklyn is labeled a rotten slum. I'll spend the rest of my life here-out of choice. Brooklyn is the best damn place in the world. Next time you guys knock Brooklyn, I'll come up there and make you eat your words...
...Chicago, the Woodlawn Organization, a belligerent, Alinsky-forged army of Negro slum dwellers, employed rent strikes and picketing to win concessions ranging from tenement repairs to honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs...
...America Is Winning." With justifiable pride, Shriver pointed to Project Head Start, which has brought a touch of civilization to 600,000 preschool slum children, as OEO's most successful effort. He noted that 300,000 volunteers have enlisted in the poverty war, and that the campaign has "reached more than 3,000,000 poor people directly" with jobs, training and other services. "America," he said, "is winning the war on poverty...
...Bronx, where she was thrown into first grade with six-year-olds and learned English "by osmosis." She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, earned an M.A. in 18th century literature from Columbia, taught in every type of New York City high school, from those in slum areas to Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts...
When Harvard-educated Congregationalist Deene Clark took over as minister in 1964, he warned parishioners that he was committed to a ministry "of witness in the world." He got a number of parishioners to invite Negro children from South Boston's Roxbury slum to be their guests. When Clark decided to join the Selma march, parishioners chipped in to help pay his expenses; after he returned, they took the lead in setting up a Fair Housing Committee in Dover to prepare for the day when Negroes might afford to live there. Clark is "a very up and doing young...