Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speechless Things. At the heart of the debate is a search for the proper limit on police power in a free society-a society that confronts its cops with fast cars, urban slums, organized crime, street violence, anonymous people, and a crime rate rising five times faster than the rate of population growth. To cope with such conditions, the police argue that they must have all reasonable authority to question any citizen. Investigation alone, they say, cannot solve many crimes, such as burglary, murder and mugging, in which the culprits leave no physical traces. "I defy anyone to find...
...Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies will present the first draft of a plan for redrawing Boston's racially imbalanced school districts to representatives of the Boston School Committee today...
...historical perspective, Epps discerns two main Negro movements in the U.S.: the traditionally radical branch and the conservative faction. The radicals started with the DuBois Clubs and moved to NAACP and its sub-groups which are supported by the Negro intellectuals and leaders, while the Conservatives centered around the Urban League and the National Negro Business League. The Conservatives, Epps says, are the descendants of Booker T. Washington and feel that they must prove themselves worthy before they can enter white society...
Inevitable, ACCION invites comparison with the within already existing institutions, in diverse setting; she Accionista work exclusively in urban slums and start from scratch to build a community organization. ACCION is more selective, taking only about one in ten applicants as compared to one in three for the Peace Corps. ACCION's attrition rate is also higher--15 per cent to the Peace Corp's 5 per cent. This figure doesn't represent a higher dissatisfaction quotient, however. ACCION prefers to let all those go who can't match its demands for professional minded, dedicated activists. Because the Peace Corps...
That is likely never to happen. Although financial contributions to Radcliffe increase each year, it will be a long time before the college, with its present set of financial priorities, will be able to recruit students from the country's poor neighborhoods, from urban slums and small farms...