Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, he said, urban schools have not responded to the specialized educational needs of the diversified metropolis...
...those farms and ranches for a living." Today, he hastened to add, "our task is to make our cities good places to live, expensive and demanding as we realize that task is going to be. But the price of progress must not be two Americas, one rural and one urban, or one Northern and one Southern, or one Protestant and one Catholic, or one white and one colored...
...They're Hurting Us." N.A.A.C.P. and Urban League leaders, who argue that Cubans now hold 30,000 jobs in the Miami area that otherwise would be available to Negroes, expressed fears that the Negro unemployment rate-already much higher than the general average -would rise still further. Miami, they point out, is as potent a magnet for Negroes in other parts of the South as it is for Cubans. Though as yet there has been no racial trouble between the two groups, the threat is there. As Charles Bowder, an unemployed Negro laborer...
Many of the men responsible for the School's new attitude joined the faculty this fall. One of the newcomers is Max L. Stackhouse, who lectures on ethics but is also an associate of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. Stackhouse sees the union of sociology and theology as the birth of a new academic discipline, Christian Social Ethics, which focuses on "the relation between the church and all the problems of American culture...
Potter and Dyck trade slashing repartee in their office and seem as far removed from the medieval scholastics as the atomic bomb is from the cross bow, but they are faced with a special problem. "Theologians working in urban affairs and civil rights can justify their work on the grounds that the Bible says 'God so loved the world'--which means the whole world, everyone, not just good little Christians,'" Potter says. "But we have to work against Biblical injunctions like 'Be fruitful and multiply...