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DETROIT - ID the �'. sroup of Detroit area res�ts,
and '50s, it a taken for ' UDder the s of ·Citizen
.. ted t ordiDary people, participatio· and "People
. partial Iy • , .. , � these . • tioas
.. e trapped by imper- to be aa:oua Ie.
I, aDd over power. in- It started .. the 'Hobart
Street Incident·,. ere co &edged - urban re I
. ity residen�joiDed by min- contrary to the original inleD-
. ers &om Detroit d the lions of the program, a
urbs, moYed a family
into a vacant, city d house
lated for demolition under
urban rene
Jero P. Cavanagh, the
t e mayor of Detroit, and
or·· tor of the urban rene
prOlf'am, ordered police to ar­
rest those in� ar . they
. re tres • aDd viola .
the . I
The Hobart Street protesters
re member of the We t
Central �ganization (WOO),
an umbrella organization of
community groups guided by ,
community orga izer Saul' ...... ---------- ..
• kyo oyiDg good ho .
They. ere ot only coh- families ere unab
tented . be· bo
f .. b· t»o' t
I -ODe so"so �of- HOVLDHAWI'
ficials ie ,Cavanagh' d-
mini tratio later ackno ere also
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malta· 12 a broader poi I - tha
the . takes of urban rene
de ted mistakes in t e
y thiDgs re decided They
aid that in urban rene a I
programs, atae ould haYe
a wice in the future of the com­
atgallb· ·cs they lived in and the
pr ic ffected their
life. The public took DOte d
� the residen suppar
In 1968, fter Pluch com­
. lobbying and strong ef­
forts by a Black state tor
Damed Coleman Young, the
icbigan St te Legi lature
pused � Ia e tabmhing
Otizen District Cou cils. These
advilory board ere to be
CAClIIeII by atize in each of the
different urban renewal ar
tbr ut the te,
The COUDci.Is were advisory.
City ffj. h d the power 10
o�rrule em any time they
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