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...half American Indian, I belong to a Black Baptist church. I have no love for the people of "middle America." I spent most of my life in a Los Angeles slum and my last four years of high school in white, middle-class America. If I had a choice between the two for my children, it would not be the latter. However, I confess to being excited about the moon landing. I would have felt the same had it been Russia or Red China. It's the first time in my life I've seen the possibility...
...guitars and a couple of Beatles songs (Yesterday and Hey Jude) plus Ray Charles' What'd I Say. But the newest thing about the new Elvis is social consciousness. Recently released as a single, his version of In the Ghetto, a mawkish ditty about big-city slum life, came close to the top of the pop music charts...
Safe Conduct. In "combat" every afternoon, each teacher accompanied one of the street youths through a typical day in a slum neighborhood, participating fully in the daily activities as the youngster ran errands, visited his friends, "rapped" on street corners and -if he was one of the few who had found work...
...safe conduct for the month; another teacher updated his will before leaving home in Tennessee and took out a $37,000 life-insurance policy. Towbis, who is working for a doctorate in education at Berkeley, brushed aside their fears. He insisted on the need for daily immersion in slum areas to "understand the kids' background from working in the ghetto instead of out of sociology books...
Unwanted Protection. The Defense League's response so far has been to picket public meetings, bait Mayor John Lindsay, provide armed escorts for Jewish teachers in slum neighborhoods, and scuffle with Nazi Party members. J.D.L. also sued to reopen the City College of New York this spring after a student demonstration temporarily closed the campus...