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- Title
GOVERNMENT, THE ARTS, AND GHETTO YOUTH.
- Authors
Eddy, Junius
- Abstract
This article focuses on art and urban youth. In the late spring of 1968 the National Endowment for the Arts informed the mayors of 16 large cities that it would make available modest matching grants to support a series of summer workshops in the arts for inner city youth. Despite the inevitable instances of delayed funding, hasty staffing, and administrative red tape that are characteristic of new programs, the money ultimately reached the cities and found its way into inner city neighborhoods. Some of this activity would certainly have taken place, anyway, since many of the cities had apparently planned to spend part of their local $50,000 on similar projects. The Endowment's action was taken in co-operation with the President's Council on Youth Opportunity, an advisory, planning, and city-liaison agency established a year or so earlier, with Vice-President Hubert Humphrey as its chairman. The staff of the President's Council had, in fact, been at work for months planning with city officials and mayors' councils to develop more effective summer programs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ART; ART &; state; ADULT education workshops; INNER cities; YOUTH; YOUTH services; NATIONAL Endowment for the Arts; RED tape; EMPLOYEES
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1970, Vol 30, Issue 4, p399
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974462