Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave change behind. Miller, publisher and half of the official writing staff of Roxbury's seven-month-old Negro newspaper, the Bay State Banner sits down, puts his feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence...
...seven months, until last April 23, the Bay State Banner appeared on the newsstands once a week. Its staff was Negro, as was its predicted readership. Covering local church, community center, school, and urban renewal news almost exclusively, the Banner was read by more than a quarter of Roxbury's Negroes, Miller estimates, and was probably the only paper his readers read with any regularity or thoroughness. The Banner, following, probing, and trying to make intelligible Roxbury's renewal program, also won the support of the community leaders, largely through what Miller calls "our unusual editorial policy." The paper...
...books on publishing, and they seem to have been pretty helpful," he explains. He returned to Roxbury, where he was born, brought up, and is now well-known, not as a publisher but as a man with a mission. Roxbury, as part of Boston, is involved in the largest urban renewal program in the country, he says, but it has no system of communication among those for whom all this renewal is being done. Government money, bulldozers, and new schools are fine, but they are not enough...
This role can be filled by the researchers themselves. And though some day they may be able to make good use of an ideal lab, they will profit from a better knowledge of the problems faced day to day in an urban classroom. For them, as well as for the local schools, the Ed School should increase its support of proposals to share research rather than exporting...
Present state officials do not see themselves in such a metropolitan role, and there is always the possibility that a suburban-outside combine will veto measures designed to solve primarily urban problems. Meanwhile, the game of state politics is becoming increasingly monotonous, and most voters will probably remain content to leave the same familiar, comfortable people in office at election time...