Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair...
...argument that appeals to critics of all persuasions is that the nation needs to "reorder its priorities." As envisioned by the Urban Coalition and other responsible groups concerned with improving the lot of the Negro slum dweller, any such redefinition of national values would involve a far more vigorous effort, both moral and economic, to deal with the problems of the cities...
...Care." The Senate Labor Committee, on the other hand, rebuked the Administration by implication for its phlegmatic reaction to the urban crisis. Giving Johnson far more than he had asked, it added $200 million to his request for the war on poverty (for a total $2.26 billion), initiated an entirely new two-year, $2.5 billion program, similar to one proposed by the Urban Coalition, to provide jobs for 200,000 slum dwellers, and authorized $300 million for small businesses hurt by riots...
...full Senate-it was nonetheless a considerable embarrassment to the President, who would dearly like to appear as the champion of the cities, yet faces a $29 billion budget deficit that inhibits him from proposing any new and costly reforms that might strike at the heart of the urban malaise...
...summer's riots have changed his itinerary. Though he has not previously had any such deep involvement in urban problems, his embroilment in Detroit has caused him to switch his priorities. Just before the Midwestern Governors' Conference opened at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks last week, Romney announced that he will spend this month touring the nation's cities, postponing his expeditions to Europe and Viet Nam until later this year...