Revitalized Gum Springs Heads for Showdown Wednesday
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Title
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Revitalized Gum Springs Heads for Showdown Wednesday
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Repository
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America's Historical Newspapers
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Date Created
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5/16/1966
114th Year, No. 136
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Creator
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By: William Reddig
Washington Evening Star
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Description
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Article on the Board of Supervisors meeting that would take place later in the week of publication. The Board would hear the recently empowered Saunbers B. Moon Community Action Association (by the LBJ administration's Community Action Plan) and Gum Springs residents' case for halting the eviction clause of the housing hygiene code and resisting displacement.
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"'They say we've got to run in sewer and water. But that costs $2,500. Who's got it? Who wants to fix up these shacks? But if we don't we get it, they say we've got to move.'"
"Thomas H. Brown, president of the Gum Springs Civic Association, feels [Health Director] Kennedy has been too interested in enforcing the code rather than meeting the relocation problem."
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Research Themes
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Gum Springs
Saunders B. Moon
Community Action Program
Gum Springs Civic Association
Johnson Administration
Housing Hygiene
Housing
Low-income housing
Drainage
Protest
Community Resistance
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Type
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Newspaper
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Researcher Name
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Jacob Connelly
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Bibliographic Citation
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Reddig, William. “Revitalized Gum Springs Heads for Showdown Wednesday.” The Evening Star, May 16, 1966, 114th Year, No. 136 edition. America’s Historical Newspapers.
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