Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of the block stands Watts Happening, the coffee house started by some members of the community after the riots. In an area studded by Teen Posts, offices of OEO and OIC and Headstart, it is one of the few establishments that the residents can call their own: they own it, they run it, and they decide what happens in it. It is here, accompanied by Afro-Cuban jazz made by local musicians, that the "grassroots" voices can be heard. Tortured images of Negro life by local artists cover the walls. African sculpture stands in the corners. Just inside...
Early this year, the Philadelphia Bar Association organized Community Legal Service, Inc., a nonprofit corporation financed by nearly $750,000 in OEO funds. The service proposed to open twelve neighborhood law offices under a 20-man board of directors, including four leading lawyers and seven representatives from the slums. When a sizable minority of lawyers opposed the plan, the issue was turned over to Judge Raymond Pace Alexander of the Court of Common Pleas. After long hearings, Judge Alexander handed down a detailed decision upholding the service as not only lawful but also thoroughly beneficial to the community...
Another Goal. As if echoing that sentiment, the 25,000-member American Trial Lawyers Association last week reversed its previous opposition to the OEO plan as "costly, wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal...
These organizers, however, have almost no staff and very little money, Miss Bard said, and they are therefore unable to make contact with all the Cambridge residents who may be affected by the OEO programs...
COIC will recruit "about 80" volunteers from Harvard and Radcliffe at Fall registration, Miss Bard said. The CEOC's professional organizers will direct the student's work in Cambridge's six 'opportunity areas," as the neighborhoods where the OEO programs operate have been designated...