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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seize the prize and retreat. The movement has won over most of those who do not have a mental block toward change. The remaining masses, moreover, are not going to be convinced by continued confrontation with an alien ideology. Strategically, a quiet retreat by the radicals while they build "orthogonal institutions" (universities, news perpers, etc.) would have beneficial results...
...power and may serve to confirm whites in fear and repression. The most hopeful strategy thus seems to be the determined use of political organization and economic pressure that have been used countless times before within the U.S. system. This strategy can make full use of black nationalism to build pride and spirit...
After that victory, Jackson's troops moved on to persuade neighborhood companies to do their banking in black banks and savings and loan associations. The combined assets of two such banks rose quickly from $5,000,000 to $22 million. Grocery chains were pressed into using black contractors to build their new stores in the ghetto. Many stores have capitulated to Breadbasket without any direct pressure at all because, as Jackson puts it, "they heard our footsteps coming...
...become convinced that Diana was "completely carried away. It was almost an intellectual hysteria." The years unknown to her father were intensely political for Diana. When factionalism shattered S.D.S. in 1969, she and Bill Ayers joined the most radical, extreme, violence-prone faction, the Weathermen. She began to build an arrest record, once in Flint, Mich., for passing out pamphlets to high school students and again in Chicago in the Weathermen's "days of rage" forays against the police. Detroit police say that Diana was present at the small, secret conclave of Weathermen last December in Flint, at which...
...estimates that actual additional federal-construction spending this year will come to only $175 million. One reason: the supposedly unfrozen funds will be slow to trickle down to the states and municipalities. That might be just as well for the nation. Most of the extra money would go to build highways -hardly the country's most pressing social need-and a spurt in highway construction would divert resources from the genuine need of private housing.Said one Administration staff economist: "I can't understand all the excitement about the construction bit. It's all really sort...