Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conjunction with the Moratorium, the group said it will organize more extensive neighborhood canvassing on those days to educate the "grass roots" about the reasons for withdrawal...
...paddywagons, and moving vans evicted four families from their homes near the Harvard Business School. These four are the last of a group of eighty-five families who have been fighting for the past nine years against the plans of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to raze this low-income neighborhood and build a moderate income housing project...
...This neighborhood on North Harvard Street has a history of very militant opposition to the BRA's plans to redevelop the site. In 1964, when the BRA tried to evict 85 low income families to build a high-rise luxury apartment tower, the residents fought back so bitterly that the plans for the project were scrapped...
...Like many Southern cities in the early '60s, Charlottesville, Va., devised a school-zoning plan that produced de facto segregation. Elementary school pupils were assigned to neighborhood schools, but if members of their race were in the minority, they could transfer to schools where their own race was predominant. In effect, white students were invited to stay in white schools. When his court outlawed the practice as an evasion, Haynsworth joined in a dissent, arguing that the Constitution does not bar "the exercise of the personal tastes of the races in their associations." Later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously...
Many students will also participate in anti-war neighborhood canvassing occurring throughout...