Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ogres, evicting the poor for the of the rich. One BRA tells the story of filling out a in which he listed his as "Boston Redevelopment The lady who processed began to berate him as a brute. "My God," he shook "She didn't even come from affected by urban renewal." last Monday's malee in the 12 people were arrested, one Harvard student, James '64, was evicted, along with wife and eight-month-old child. of the more partial observers the sit-in that took place front porch to the famous at the Edmund Pottus Bridge...
...there was a growing sentiment that perhaps it was time for the revolution to move off the streets. This sentiment was expressed by Whitney Young, director of the National Urban League, at his organization's national convention in Miami. "A speech is not a program," said Young. "A rally or a demonstration does not guarantee a job or prepare anyone for one." To consolidate the Negro's "revolution of fulfillment," said Young, requires the highest sense of responsibility: "While Negroes expect equality from whites, they must demand excellence from themselves...
India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 86, who quit the Congress to found the Swatantra Party, fears that one day the Congress and the government might merge into a one-party state. Local Congress leaders who have held power since 1947 own too much land and urban property to permit the reforms that are needed if India is to reach economic equity. The zamindars of West Bengal, for example, have become (through Congress Party consent) the equivalent of the English gentry...
...City Council Monday set August 30 as the date for a public hearing on redevelopment plans for the 42-acre Kendall Square urban renewal site...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority Monday captured a major fortified citadel that had been occupied by North Harvard urban renewal opponents but only after last-ditch resistance erupted into a bitter melee in which 12 people were arrested for trespassing...