Jul 3, 2020
Stanley Newman is interviewed by Nan McKay on Community TrailBlazers Podcast (https://trailblazersimpact.com/community-trailblazers/). Mr. Newman has had a distinguished career in local and federal government since coming to Washington as legislative assistant to Congressman William Fitts Ryan. He tells Nan about the program he directed which was one of the government’s largest economic development programs, the Urban Development Action Grant program (https://academic.oup.com/publius/article-abstract/19/3/93/1917525), including its positives and negatives. He recounts hearing Martin Luther King speak in Montgomery, Alabam, the civil rights act of 1964 anad 1965, and the redlining going on at FHA (https://www.thoughtco.com/redlining-definition-4157858). He also talks about the segregation of public housing (https://prospect.org/article/public-housing-government-sponsored-segregation/).
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