Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spong, who lives in Portsmouth, rose to prominence as the leader of the urban bloc in Virginia's General Assembly. For 30 years the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But within the last 10 years a band of moderates, consisting of representatives from Richmond, the urban areas of Northern Virginia, and Tidewater cities like Norfolk and Portsmouth has sprung up between the two extremes in the party...
...Senator, Spong also considers his role to be legislative rather than political--"I've been keeping quiet and trying to do a good job on my committees, especially since they're dealing with things like highways and pollution that are important to urban areas...
...major questions in Virginia is how soon Spong will join the battle to elect the progressive leaders the state needs to cope with its emerging industrial and urban character. Despite his natural tendency to stay aloof from day-to-day political maneuvering, he feels that "this is something I can't just walk away from." It seems likely that in one or two years, after he has established himself in the Senate, Spong will take a much more active interest in "party committees and conventions"--as well as elections...
Most go-go feature of the week was Johnson's urban message, which went to Congress while he was at his Texas ranch for a Washington's Birthday retreat. The message contained an ambitious program to provide 26 million new homes and apartments for low-and middle-income families in the next decade, more than ten times the number of such units built in the past decade under federal programs. In hopeful theory at least, the plan should eliminate all substandard housing in the nation. If Congress approves, the construction of 6,000,000 of the homes...
Black Power sentiment is fed, among other things, by the urban Negro's pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...