Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner is presently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Coalition, based in Washington, D.C. Next year he will also be a visiting professor at M.I.T. where he will spend most of his time...
...years, the demands of the Poor People's Campaign are based on a liberal ideology which the Johnson Administration has often and loudly endorsed. It was only one month ago that President Johnson told the nation that he would immediately demand bold measures to meet the needs of the urban crisis...
...asked for compulsory student work with educational self-help groups in Roxbury, and also suggested that community leaders attend courses at Harvard and discussion groups with MAT's. Eventually, Roxbury leaders would become full faculty members and, hopefully, exert some influence on the course of Ed School urban activities...
...most difficult problem will undoubtedly involve control of resources and that "gut" acceptance of community competence. Some community leaders have suggested that universities formulate codes of conduct for professors taking the urban plunge, but standards of this sort smack so much of infringement on academic freedoms that no faculty is likely to tolerate them. Many researchers are moving on their own toward paying subjects consultant wages, and employing black surveyors, but on questions of sub-contracting federal or foundation moneys, few are likely to give way. And genuine community consultation and cooperation are such personal matters that no one except...
There are some hopeful signs. Last Thursday, the Urban League and Boston College announced a joint project to ease the transfer of white businesses to blacks. The agreement gave the community group control of resources, which seemed the key community demand. But the problem of hard-won foundation grants wasn't involved, and there was only one project and a relatively small group of people involved. Broad, institutionalized cooperation will vastly increase the chance of misunderstanding--slighting of community advisors, and a whole range of personal problems which easily take on racial connotations...