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...Paulo Slum Dweller Carolina Maria de Jesus is against Father's Day; see HEMISPHERE, Life in the Garbage Room...
Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot, an empty oil can on her head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack...
While Southern cities were firing legal smoke shells at school integration last week, New York City announced a historic breach of de facto segregation. A growing problem in every big Northern city, de facto segregation results from slum housing, racial ghettos and rigid school zoning laws. In New York City, where three-quarters of Manhattan's public-school pupils are now Negro and Puerto Rican, the concentration of them in some schools is as high as 100%. Negro parents complain that such schools are educationally inferior. Demanding a chance to send their children to more racially mixed schools, many...
Most big cities have failed to redevelop their biggest land resource: slums. Slums are undertaxed, while good new apartments are overtaxed. A slum landlord has so little incentive to improve his property that often only the Federal Government can afford to build new middle-income housing on slum sites. If slum areas were taxed on the basis of the actual high value of the land in the city's heart rather than on the basis of the ramshackle buildings on it, landlords would be forced to build new higher-rent apartments...
...uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains, but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...