Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Channel. The war's major bat tleground was a 20-sq.-mi. ghetto. Watts is the kind of community that cries out for urban renewal, poverty programs, job training. Almost anything would help. Two-thirds of its residents have less than a high school education; one-eighth of them are technically illiterate...
...summer" was blamed -as it was in Harlem last year-and not without reason: the rioting broke out on the fourth day of an unusual heat wave in which Angelenos sweltered in humid 90°-to-100° temperatures night and day. A deeper source of irritation for urban Negroes is their isolation and poverty in a land of conspicuous plenty. Undeniably, also, there is a "lack of communication" between whites and blacks, between responsible Negroes and the predominantly white police force. Watts only too plainly lacks Negro leadership-except for the hotheads who could whip up last week...
...wrong, socially detestable and self-defeating. On the other hand, I equally deplore the continuation of ghetto life that millions of Negroes have to live in. They are in hopeless despair, and they feel they have no stake in society." New Yorker Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the Urban League: "It's not enough to deplore the violence. This is but a symptom." Jesse Gray, leader of the rent strikes in Harlem during 1963: "We need 100 skilled black revolutionaries, dedicated men ready to die. We must make each a platoon captain, and each must get 100 more...
...transformed the nature and needs of U.S. society. Yet only three new Cabinet posts have been created to cope with them in the last 62 years.-Last week, in belated recognition of the problems facing America's cities, the Congress approved a fourth, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the Senate, which passed a bill establishing HUD by a vote of 57 to 33, opposition was predominantly Republican. The bill's aim, to coordinate 115-odd federal housing and urban development programs within a single department, seemed worthy enough. But for many critics it portended...
...world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising -feared domination by the Chinese-aggressive, technically able and urban -who ran just about everything except the bureaucracy. It was just a matter of time before the ugly jealousies brought trouble to a climax. The federation was given the coup de grace by the very man who had conceived it, Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 62, an aristocratic, Cambridge-educated...