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Download full textEducational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
A 45-block area of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York was chosen to illustrate how a poor urban community with the physical potential for restoration might be transformed by a local, unconventional college. About 500,000 poor people live in the area, 95% of whom are Negro or Puerto Rican, and almost 50% of these have only a ninth…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Opportunities, Higher Education, Innovation
Saegert, Susan – 1996
The lives of poor minority city residents demonstrate the diversity, multiple potentials, and vulnerability to external structures. In spite of the stereotypes of failure and the very real problems of the urban poor, there are many strengths among the so-called urban underclass and there are aspects of life that are successful and productive. In…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Community Involvement, Cooperation, Coping
