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Ghetto Merchants: Exploiters Or Exploited?
An urban affairs look at about 200000 white merchants in Negro slums who stay to run stores despite crime and riots. They fear leaving due to debts and loss of business, while facing insurance losses, burglary, and harassment. Some resent being labeled exploiters. others defend staying for revenue and safety.
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Washington
14Th Street
Martin Luther King Jr
Cleveland
Lower
Harlem
Small Business Administration
Newark
Blue Hill Avenue
Boston
Roxbury
Darwin W. Bolden
Interracial Council For Business Opportunity
Bolden
Riva Poor
Action For
Boston Community Development Inc
Sam Blanken
Blanken
I Jacone Glass CO
Sealtest
Chef Delight
Sara Lee