Word: shantytown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tries to be helpful, but her world is too different from that of a poor, illegal immigrant with no working papers and little French. When Carlos finally appears, he can offer Antonio nothing better than a day laborer's job and a filthy bunk in a mud-soaked shantytown...
Churning through the trash-strewn gumbo that had once been a manicured meadow, a federal bulldozer last week interred the last traces of Resurrection City. Its few remaining inhabitants scattered or imprisoned, the shantytown capital and symbol of the Poor People's Campaign had long since become an ugly, anarchic embarrassment to their cause...
...dramatizing the plight of the poor was defeated in part by the forbearance of the Government. When the Rev. Ralph Abernathy led his flock to trespass on Capitol Hill, Washington police arrested 261 of them almost gently. Another 124 were picked up in the dying shantytown, and their belongings were meticulously catalogued for later retrieval. Even the mules, finally arriving in their 13-wagon train from Mississippi, went to pasture donated by a Washingtonian. There was an abortive riot in the Washington ghetto. But the authorities-particularly Mayor Walter Washington-stuck to their restraint. Resurrection City's cost...
...banners. There was an angry flare-up over the black monopoly on policymaking. "Black militants have taken over, and nobody else gets a chance to talk," protested Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of 200 Mexican-Americans quartered at the private Hawthorne School about a mile from the shantytown. He complained that brown, red and white Americans were being bossed around by the Negroes and shouted down at meetings. "They are pushed down by black marshals, pushed out and humiliated." Abernathy finally made a pilgrimage to Hawthorne and promised Tijerina a larger voice for nonblack groups...
...headquarters of the Poor People's Campaign-the last project launched by the late Martin Luther King Jr-the shantytown is designed to prod Congress into taking action on behalf of the nearly 30 million poor Americans. To ensure that Congress gets the message, the poor will stage a series of demonstrations climaxed by a Memorial Day march that is expected to draw more than 150,000 participants. What worries official Washington-as well as the tourists who are staying away in droves-is that the "demos" may get out of hand, turning Resurrection City into Insurrection City...