PEDIATRICS Vol. 39 No. 4 April 1967, pp. 505
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WHAT THE NEGRO WANTS FOR HIS CHILDREN

TALCOTT BATES M.D.

Johnie Scott, a 20-year-old who was born in a women's prison and raised in the slum of Watts, heard by chance of the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, took them, attended Harvard, and is now back in Watts. He writes of Watts as he knows it. His vivid first person description ends with a statement of the Negroes' "demands."

"The slum Negro will ask, for his children, parks (and in Watts there is but one); efficient care of those who need relief and medical care (and at present both the Bureau of Public Assistance and the Los Angeles County General Hospital are under fire for their inordinately slow treatment and processing of poor people); jobs that will reach the majority of the community's skills (there is no trade school in Watts, and there is but one in the entire city of Los Angeles); increased contact with social workers; a rapport with politician and policeman; good schools with space for growth as the community itself grows; and, most of all, communication with the outside world on a level other than that of fear."