A time to listen ... a time to act, voices from the ghettos of the Nation's cities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions--1964-.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Mexican Americans--Economic conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Minorities--United States.

Minorities.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 133 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. ; United States Government Printing Office, 1967.

Contents:

Chapter 1. " ... All we Can See is Darkness Ahead.". I felt like I was in a cage; Children in the Ghetto

Chapter 2. " ... A Slum Neighborhood Is What Your Would Call It." A Bare House; Urban Destruction; Rats; Poor Services; Streets and Sanitation Services; Transportation; Health Care Facilities; The Police and the Ghetto

Chapter 3. "The Main Problem is Money." Living on Welfare; Domestic Work; Exploitation; Business and Property

Chapter 4. "You Just Can't Make It." The Role of the Ghetto School; Economic Opportunity; Job Training Programs; Exclusive Union Practices; The Flight of Jobs; Housing; Owners and Realtors; Finance Industry; Builders; Role of Government

Chapter 5. "... An Isolated, Elite Type of Community." Racial Isolation and Social Responsibility; Racial Isolation and White Attitudes

Chapter 6. "Look, Baby, Nobody is Going to Help You But Yourself." The Will to Act; Militancy in Minority Communities.

Notes:

"A Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1967"--Cover.

"November 1967"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.

OCLC:

22118