Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commission on Civil Rights, "you must still have Young to go inside and deal for the jobs and the training." Says Young: "You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course." Though the Urban League has in many ways changed almost beyond recognition from the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes that was set up in New York in 1910, its role and its goal-"not alms but opportunity"-have remained essentially the same...
...Negroes, still its biggest concern. When the U.S. entered World War II, 46 local branches were scattered around the country, and the league, through Industrial Relations Laboratories in 300 defense plants, was able to place more than 150,000 Negroes in jobs never before open to them. "What the Urban League means to the Negro community," said Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma, his classic 1944 study of U.S. race relations, "can best be understood by observing the dire need of its activity in cities where there is no local branch...
...least of Young's accomplishments has been the revitalization of the Urban League itself, which, for all its good works, was showing signs of arteriosclerosis as the civil rights era of the '60s began. Changing its watchword from "improvement" to "equality," he set up a Washington bureau, separate from the local league office to bird dog federal funds, established five regional centers around the country to ride herd on local offices, and extended branches aggressively throughout...
...oral or visual, since the Israelis have found that the written word is not effective among the Arabs. One method involves meetings over coffee between Arab notables and local Israeli officials; another calls for loading Arab leaders aboard buses for tours through Israel to see rural and urban development. A typical stop is the 36-story Shalom Tower skyscraper, where the Arabs can see unmistakable refutation of Cairo Radio's claim that Tel Aviv lies in ruins. Visits to a supermarket draw a standard query: "How do you prevent stealing...
...modern technology," he wrote last week, "the aerospace industry has a special responsibility to respond to the challenges of a Newark or Detroit. It has technology that could be applied, from new and less lethal methods of riot control to systems planning and management capacity. This technology could redesign urban complexes, create effective regional transportation systems and provide the jobs that would absorb much of the energies now dissipated in violence...