Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate is the highest in the city; flocks of prostitutes hustle passers-by at every chance; and hatred for the city's cops runs deep-the more so because the 2,140-man force has only 130 Negro members and only two above the rank of patrolman. The urban-renewal program in Hough has been labeled one of the nation's worst...
...response to false alarms. Several apartment buildings were burned. A store run by Goodwill Industries, a charitable organization chartered to help the handicapped, was ransacked and burned. The 79ers Bar, where it all began, was destroyed by a fire bomb. To no one's surprise, the regional urban-renewal office was wrecked and looted. Indeed, as one observer put it, Hough's busy arsonists were pursuing their own program of "instant urban renewal...
...When the steps get steeper and the print gets smaller," says Whitney Young Jr., 45, executive director of the National Urban League...
...Stop Messing with Me." Suspecting that CORE would take the black-power route at its convention, the Big Three of moderate civil rights organizations-the N.A.A.C.P., the National Urban League and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference-boycotted the sessions. Their fears were confirmed. For the first time in CORE's history, the Black Muslims and other extreme Ne gro nationalists were not only permitted to share the platform but were favorably mentioned by the convention's leaders. The hall rang with chants of "Black power! Black power! Black power!" Said one shocked Roman Catholic...
...Summer School will hold its annual "Conference on Educational Administration" Thursday and Friday. Harold Howe II, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Rep. Ogden R. Reld (R-N.Y.), and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of education and Urban Politics, will be long the speakers at the two day convocation...