Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself cast back into the ghetto and a social immobility equivalent to the triple-canopy of the Southeast Asia jungle. "He's seen miles of progress in Viet Nam," says Beauregard Brown, "when there wasn't an inch of progress at home in Harlem or Jackson." The Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., one of the few Negro civil rights leaders who have visited Viet Nam, warns in Harper's June issue that, along with his "new confidence," the Negro G.I. has acquired new skills "of guerrilla warfare, of killing, of subversion, and it would...
...Fully 15,000 Negro veterans are returning to civilian life each year, and if the war continues to grow in its demands for more troops, their numbers will mount accordingly. To help those men find a place in civilian life worthy of their talents and proven leadership capabilities, the Urban League will begin this summer to seed ten "Veterans Affairs Offices" into its 81 nationwide centers. Funded at $175,000, the VAO program will help Negroes use their G.I. benefits ($150 a month for education), place them in a "skill bank," and offer on-the-job training where...
...express great fears about the future stability of this country's politics, that, indeed, the continued existence of traditional constitutional democracy as we know it is threatened by the inability of the present party structure to respond meaningfully to the demands of certain excluded groups, in particular the urban Negro. And the election of any Republican (for any Republican will staff his administration primarily with other Republicans) will be a blow to the prospects of solving America's domestic problems. If that is the price that must be paid to extricate this country from Vietnam, the costs should still...
...credited with the most successful urban redevelopment program in the country, urged an end to clustered public housing which "Just replaces the old ghetto with a new sanitary...
...told an audience in Burr B that although decentralized units of public housing are harder to maintain, the Department of Housing and Urban Development now considers them an effective means of integrating as well as preventing the deterioration of neighborhoods...