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Still, the nation's public libraries are in bad shape. The American Library Association, which sets a minimum standard of 10,000 library volumes for communities with fewer than 2,500 people, figures that 69% of the 7,260 public libraries in the U.S. are substandard. Of the 8,000 elementary schools in the country, fully 60% have no central libraries, a state of affairs that U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel calls "a national disgrace...
Individual Negro incomes went up 54% from 1950 to 1960, and family incomes soared by 73%. The number of Negroes living in standard housing, compared with census-defined substandard housing, doubled in the same period. Negro-controlled insurance companies have doubled their assets since 1951; Negro commercial banks have increased their assets from $5 million to $53 million since...
Right now, the single most important factor to the anti-renewal forces of North Harvard is time. The BRA will almost certainly continue to demolish vacant homes on the site today, probably including some of the substandard that Harvard owned. The more structures that are demolished, the less likely it will be that claims that the neighborhood can be rehabilitated will stand...
...points out that "Negroes have no corner on the incompetence market." In fact, well-educated Southern Negroes have long gone into teaching for lack of other opportunities. Florida has based some of its dismissals on National Teacher Examination scores, and Griffin predicts that the test will "weed out some substandard white teachers...
...estimates, 25,000 to 30,000 families (over 100,000 people) will be displaced before 1970 to make way for the new construction. The vast majority of these families (with an average income of $3,400 a year) now lives in the 50,000 units of housing officially declared substandard...