Contents Page Chapter 1. ".. All We Can See is Darkness Ahead." 5 A Bare House 13. Urban Destruction 15. Rats 16. Poor Services 18. Streets and Sanitation Services 18. Transporta- tion 19. Health Care Facilities 20. The Police and the Chapter 3. "The Main Problem Is Money." 27 Living on Welfare 29. Domestic Work 36. Exploita- tion 36. Business and Property 38. Chapter 4. "You Just Can't Make It." 41 The Role of the Ghetto School 41. nity 49. Job Training Programs 49. Practices 52. The Flight of Jobs 58. Chapter 5. "... An Isolated, Elite Type of Community." 69 Racial Isolation and Social Responsibility 69. Racial Iso- lation and White Attitudes 72. Chapter 6. "Look, Baby, Nobody Is Going To Help You But The Will to Act 81. Militancy in Minority Communi- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Commission expresses its appreciation to the many private citizens and government officials who assisted the Commission staff members during the months of investigation and preparation for the hearings and open meetings. Special thanks are owed to those whose testimony at Commission hearings and statements at open meetings of the Commission's State Advisory Committees in cities across the land form the basis for this report. The Commission also expresses its gratitude to members of the Commission's State Advisory Committees, particularly the Committees in New York, Georgia, Tennessee, California, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, and Utah, whose reports and open meetings have been invaluable to the Commission in its consideration of urban racial problems. The Commission also is indebted to Howard A. Glickstein, General Counsel, and David Rubin, Deputy General Counsel, who directed the following members and former members of the Commission staff in preparation of this report: Edward Beis, George Bradley, Edna Bush, Sophie Eilperin, Jonathan Fleming, Sara Green, Treola Grooms, Sandra Hall, Mary Hanson, David Hunter, Wilbur Jenkins, Roy Littlejohn, Roger Lowenstein, Jo Nell Monti, Leda Rothman, Everett Santos, Richard Seymour, Celestine Sledd, Diann Stanley, Naomi Tinsley, Stephanie Wenkert, Ruth Whitaker, and Sheila Wilson. Finally, the Commission is indebted to the many staff members who conducted and assisted in the investigations preparatory to the hearings and open meetings held during the past two years. |