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"BUILD A GHETTO To THE
SKY" is how Clarence Cash
ot the Chicago commirree
on Urban opportunity de-
scribed "high rise" public
housing proieeis. This partic—
iiler lb-s'i‘ory structure
houses eleven lamilles per
floor. An ltolian priest who
works in a Catholic mission
across the slreel’ said his
church's hlggeel problem in
working with the people 01'
the pi'oiecl wes ther they
had no "culture.” The priest.
Father Paul, was asked how
many people lived in that
one building. Even God has
irouble keeping iip with the
number of ‘people in that
building" was his reply:

SCARLET AND ILACK

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Chicago's Ghetto Faml y
epontlent on City Aid

The West Side Organization — a volunteer group lighting poverty in
the Negro ghetto — had discovered the iamilyr Their plight was worse
than most. we were told.

At their Wt Roosevelt meeting place. WSO man in denim work
clothes so new they crinkled told us that talking wiiii the laniily might
be difficult. Mrs. Beasely, he said, had emotional problems.

We found the building in which Mrs. Beasely's apartment was. We
ielt Oul' way down an unllghted hallway and knocked on an already open
doorway. A little girl about six years old told us to come in.

We asked where her mother was and she pointed to the front room
The tloor was completely littered with items ranging from empty cat -
board boxes to broken toy wagons. Mrs. Beasely was sitting on a chair
in front of one of the windows. her chin in her hands. looking out on the
street She hardly looked up when we came in and, when we asked,
she said go ahead and take pictures.

In the back room — Watching television — were several more of
Mrs. Beasely’s children, There were only two single beds in the apart-
ment insofar as I could tell.

A boy about 15 years old — whose name we later learned was John
— said he didn't want his picture taken and, to prove it. stomped out of
the apartment.

Mrs. Beasely told us she had lived in Chicago for 15 years. She had
moved there from Clarksdale, Missr She and her husband had been
separated for five years, We asked her how many children she had and
she said 10 or 11 or 12. She, of Course, was receiving ADC _ Aid to De-
pendent Children.

The people with WSO had said that Mrs. Beasely had trouble getting
ADC but when asked about it she said that no. they had been very good
to her. Mrs. Beasely was not employed.

 

 

 

 

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.llMMr COLLIER ls AN sctc STAFF MEMBER end. dur-
log the intermission of e rock 'n roll dance at e church. he
spoke lo the {sen-agers eboiil the movement.

 

AT LEAST lw
oi the Beasly
c h i | d re n es
they watch
television in the
wood stove .
heeled apart-
ment. The bed
pictured is one
0‘ two in The
apartment.

 

Chicago's De Patio Segregated School System
Presents Difficulties to Poverty Programs

The schools in Chicago were the topic of
controversy, marches, and sit-ins this slim-
mer. The Negro organizations claim that
schools superintendent Benjamin Willis has
created a system of “de facto segregation"
by using what is called the “neighborhood
school system” policy. The policy in essence
says that you go to the school that is nearest
you. On the West. Side this means the 95 pet‘
cent of the children in the schools are Nee

gm, According to the demonstrators this
summer Willis has placed new schools in

 

SllCh'a manner as to continue this system.
The all Negro schools are wrought ’with

many problems - not the least oi which is
keeping good teachers. A teacher can, after
three years tenure, request and get a trans-
fer to another school. What this often means
is that only the new, inexperienced teachers
are sent to the Negro schools and, as soon
as they gain any experience, they transleix

Of course there are other problems inher-
ent with an all Negro school. The lack of
contact between white and Negro students
continues a kind of mutual ignorance of one
another. Arid, as the US, Supreme Court
realized in 1954, the psychological effect of

being segregated makes it impossible to get

' an’ equal 'educ'ation’. '

 

,‘We Gotta Get Outta This, Place'

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ONE OF THE‘ WEST SIDE'S bellsr grade
(chools — but it is still 95 per cent Negro.
One of the few white pupil: walks homo
With her lilassnia‘lesl ' ' 3 '