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...least 16 Massachusetts tenant groups will demonstrate at the State House next month to urge the Local Affairs Committee to reconsider extension of a state rent control...
Goldowitz, who is also a member of the state Rent Control Task Force, a coaltion of 16 tenant groups in the state, said the task force plans to converge in the State House lobby...
Wesley E. Profit '69, a member of the East Cambridge Hard Times tenant group, said yesterday Cambridge tenants will meet this weekend to form some sort of organized response...
Died. Lucius Holsey Pitts, 58, influential black educator and civil rights leader; of a heart attack; in Augusta, Ga. As more and more black students enrolled in predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles...
...kind of hero we need is the woman Gene and I met in Boston, or tenant organizers in urban ghettoes or women picketing for equal pay and equal rights under law. A doctor in Roxbury would make a good hero. So would the people raising money for the Attica Brothers. Those who run half-way houses for men and women who otherwise would be in reformatories, prisons, or insane asylums are heroes. So are the Farah strikers and the California farm workers. All these people deal with suffering. All these people open possibilities for the future. They are heroes even...