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... labor jobs and they didn't think they could ever get any higher and they didn't work , some of them.28 In Cleveland , Dr. Robert Coles , a child psychiatrist from Harvard University who has done clinical studies of Negro children in ...
... labor jobs and they didn't think they could ever get any higher and they didn't work , some of them.28 In Cleveland , Dr. Robert Coles , a child psychiatrist from Harvard University who has done clinical studies of Negro children in ...
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... Labor surveyed slum areas in eight major cities of the United States in order to obtain a more detailed picture of employment and poverty problems . The Depart- ment's report showed that almost half of the families surveyed received ...
... Labor surveyed slum areas in eight major cities of the United States in order to obtain a more detailed picture of employment and poverty problems . The Depart- ment's report showed that almost half of the families surveyed received ...
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... Labor Council gets from the Federal Government we can only place 500 people on these jobs among the youth from sixteen to twenty - one . 18 Mr. Comfort also thought that jobs made available through the anti- poverty program did not pay ...
... Labor Council gets from the Federal Government we can only place 500 people on these jobs among the youth from sixteen to twenty - one . 18 Mr. Comfort also thought that jobs made available through the anti- poverty program did not pay ...
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... Labor - agreed and cited other limita- tions of the program : We are spending millions of dollars for all kinds of train- ing programs but the people who should be benefiting from them are not in the programs . There are hidden barriers ...
... Labor - agreed and cited other limita- tions of the program : We are spending millions of dollars for all kinds of train- ing programs but the people who should be benefiting from them are not in the programs . There are hidden barriers ...
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... labor force is smaller than needed here , they have to fill vacancies with men im- ported from other States . In all this the Negro is left out . The local unions are almost all - white and the imported labor is all - white . So the ...
... labor force is smaller than needed here , they have to fill vacancies with men im- ported from other States . In all this the Negro is left out . The local unions are almost all - white and the imported labor is all - white . So the ...
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Page 125 - During the performance of this contract, the contractor agrees as follows: "(1) The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.
Page 132 - If a neighborhood is to retain stability, it is necessary that properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes.
Page 95 - The children of these disillusioned colored pioneers inherited the total lot of their parents — the disappointments, the anger. To add to their misery, they had little hope of deliverance. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Page 119 - ... generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. Social and economic separation compound the educational obstacles of racial segregation in many schools today. The deficiencies of the slum school are further aggravated by a widespread belief that the intellectual capability of most slum children is too limited to allow much education. As a result standards are lowered to meet the level the child...
Page 102 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Senate Committee on Government Operations (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1967), pp.
Page 114 - ... which he feels has turned its back upon him. Welfare does not change this. It provides the necessities of life, but adds nothing to a man's stature, nor relieves the frustrations that grow. In short, the price for public assistance is loss of human dignity. The welfare program that provides for his children is administered so that it injures his position as the head of his household, because aid is supplied with less restraint to a family headed by a woman, married or unmarried. Thus, the unemployed...
Page 104 - Our investigation has brought into clear focus the fact that the inadequate and costly public transportation currently existing throughout the Los Angeles area seriously restricts the residents of the disadvantaged areas such as south central Los Angeles. This lack of adequate transportation handicaps them in seeking and holding jobs, attending schools, shopping and fulfilling other needs.1 The McCone Commission, therefore, recommended that public transit services in Los Angeles be expanded and subsidized.
Page 104 - Parcel #330 was purchased in 1935. "You know the neighborhood has really changed terribly since we moved in here. At first it was mostly German and Jewish, and the police in the city took care of things. No trucks parked overnight in the streets and no noise or anything like that. Now there is mostly Negro and they don't seem to come any more. If you complain they want to put you in jail. — Many of the owners here would like to stay, but the neighborhood is run down so that most of them sell just...