Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wage guerrilla war on the honkie white man," added: "I love violence." Los Angeles Black Nationalist Ron Karenga remarked at the opening session: "Everybody knows Whitey's a devil. The question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference, decided to keep on fishing in Bimini. Conference leaders discouraged delegates from talking to reporters; one white newsman was pitched out of a ground-floor window...
...problems of America. To be sure, there are vast physical and psychic differences between Manhattan and some of the leafy streets of its sister borough of Queens, and between Queens and Scarsdale, and between Scarsdale and Levittown, and between all of them and Duluth, Minn. But they are all "urban," and they must all contend with traffic jams, parking, pollution, shortages of hospitals, parks, police and even water, usually with inadequate schools and spreading slums, and always with taxes and America's weird tangle of municipal jurisdictions...
...infantry officer from Algiers to the Bulge, Newark until recently was considered a city in control of its problems. Addonizio, who served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election as mayor in 1962 -largely on the strength of Negro and Italian votes-outlined an ambitious urban-renewal program. Newark today spends $277 per capita on repairing urban blight-the highest annual figure for the nation's 50 biggest cities. Newark officials claim an overall unemployment figure of 7%-down from 14% when Addonizio took over city hall-and Newark has 125 federal poverty workers...
...many Negroes, the gravest grievance is one engendered by somebody's idea of an urban improvement. Last year Addonizio designated 46 acres of the Central Ward as the new campus for the New Jersey State College of Medicine and Dentistry-a move that would force some 3,500 Negroes out of their homes. However dilapidated those dwellings might be, the threat raised hackles throughout the city. A subsequent proposal to extend two interstate highways that pass near Newark through the downtown area might displace 20,000 more Negroes. The resolution of these problems is not yet clear...
...continuing international revolutionary happening; the second act was the Chinese Communist takeover of 1948; and the curtain is about to rise on the third. The Russian Revolution really consisted of two revolutions, proletarian and bourgeois, merged into one. The proletariat was represented by the collective-minded industrial urban workers; the bourgeoisie, by economically individualistic peasants. The industrial workers were, of course, the revolutionary elite, "the chief agent of socialism." But in the famines and civil wars that raged into the 1920s, this industrial flower was cut down; the Russian workers who had manned the barricades "physically and politically faded...