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Conditions That Fueled Ghetto Riots Still Prevail Across Cities
An Associated Press survey finds that in Watts Newark Detroit Chicago and Washington life in the ghetto worsened since the 1960s riots. Unemployment housing health care education and police hostility stay dire, with white racism blamed for sustaining the disparities.
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Watts
Detroit
Newark
Chicago
Washington, D.C
Associated Press
Rhettos
Thomas J. Peloso Jr
Michigan Civil Rights Commission
Kenneth A. Gibson
Washington
Renault Robinson
John Mack
Los Angeles Urban League
Congress
The
Washington Research Project
Citizens Board of Inquiry
National Advisory Commission On
Kerner Report
National Commission On the Causes and Prevention of
Eisenhower Commission
Kerner
Martin Luther King Jr
America
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Department of Justice
Sarah C. Carey
National Urban Coalition
California
Illinois
Michigan
New Jersey
Gibson
12Th Street
Rep. Conyers
LeMay Street
Rep
Conyers
James Bradley
Los Angeles
14Th Street
Charlie Mahone
Harry Dolan
Watts Writers Workshop
NBC
Citizens Board of Inquiry Into
Health Services For
Loop
West Side
Los
Lou Smith
Bootstrap
Shindana
Mattel Toys
Chase Manhattan Bank
Lash
Black Panthers
Jesse Jackson
Channing Phillips
Oliver Lofton