Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX is a chilling glimpse of urban violence...
...festering wound responsible for the outbreaks-namely, the long-ingrained conviction and the sustained conduct in and by millions of whites that the Negro is an inferior person. The glib, commonplace expression "free, white and twenty-one" epitomizes this ghastly and disastrous view. The noise and smoke in urban areas are but echoes of battles lost in homes, schools and churches where moment by moment the American character is forged. It should be obvious that, in country or city, the Negro throughout this nation will continue to fight desperately for the honest answer to his plight-for equality status...
Goods v. Lives. The low "kill-rate," to borrow an unhappy term from the other war, was due in large measure to lessons learned from three years of urban upheaval. Heeding the advice of the Kerner riot-commission report, which warned that "the use of excessive force-even the inappropriate display of weapons-may be inflammatory and lead to worse disorder," lawmen in most cities refrained from gunplay, and magistrates quickly processed those arrested for rioting, setting low bail as the commission suggested. There were few black snipers on the rooftops; on the streets, police and National Guardsmen mostly kept...
Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the cities have almost nothing to go on in their fight against urban poverty and racial discrimination. Anti-poverty funds have been cut, summer work programs are looking very thin, the whole employment picture for Negroes is as bleak as ever and the same is true of new and rehabilitated housing. Ghetto schools are the same old schools...
Letters to Congressmen are not enough. Students could well organize themselves to campaign strongly against carefully selected Senators and Congressmen who have opposed legislation that could help Negroes, and particularly the urban-deprived. These Congress-men should be forewarned face to face by groups of students, of the activity and the reasons for it. Congressmen should be selected in such a way that their opponents, if elected, will not be worse. This takes careful work; a combing of voting records and public statements...