Money or poverty is always an issue when communicating with children unless the parents sway their thinking. A lot of times, it turns into a Single parent situation. You have one parent who drinks, and the other one doesn’t. The inevitable was on its way. Know there is a challenge of a one-parent situation that puts you in a lower income. And you are classified as a community problem. There was no such thing as Church help and community or Welfare.
John F. Kennedy: The 35th President, His Assassination Rumors, and Electoral Reform Proposals
There was a rumor that John F Kennedy was assassinated. His initials and his nickname often referred to JFK. Jack was the 35th president and American politician of the United States from 1960 to 1963. He was a Navy man and a Democrat who proposed to abolish the Electoral College.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: Gender Discrimination Enforcement and the Vietnam War’s Impact
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made job discrimination illegal. Yet the federal government agency created to enforce this law, the Equal Opportunity Commission, failed to act on behalf of women for most of the sixties, instead focusing on minorities. In the beginning, the EEOC was under pressure from women activists. The EEOC finally began to help women workers by filing gender discrimination lawsuits against companies. Occupational barriers started to fall.
The ‘60s was also seeing The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a significant Cold War conflict.
From Foster Care to the War on Drugs: Personal Displacement and National Policy Changes in the Seventies
All of a sudden, his mother sat everyone down and told them they were going into a foster home until she could get on her feet. In 1968, the family was put into Christ Home. We all arrived sometime in the year before summer.
The seventies were here, and The War on Drugs began in June 1971 when Richard Nixon declared it to be “Public Enemy Number One” and increased Federal funding for drug control agencies and treatment programs.
South Florida: From Paradise to Crisis—The Impact of Crime, Drugs, and Refugee Waves
South Florida was a postcard corner of the Sunshine State—that lush strip of hibiscus and condominiums stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West—but it is now a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs, and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane.
From Nixon’s Withdrawal to Blake’s Landfill Struggles: The Vietnam War’s Aftermath and Waste Management Issues
President Nixon ended the Vietnam War and withdrew troops in 1971, even up until 1976. There was talk about a Journalist who was sent to Vietnam who did some reporting to Washington we couldn’t win the War, and that is referred to as The Pentagon Papers.
Blake was still hauling trash in the Eighties to Bethayer’s landfill and was only supposed to take wood, brick, dirt, and block and or what is demolition. Word got out to other trash companies, and they took unwanted stuff in the beginning, perhaps mixed with paper. They were taking the money. The Transmen were getting away with it.
Philadelphia’s Dark Discoveries: Graveyard Waste and Casket Incidents at the Quarry
Philadelphia. He took it to South Philadelphia once, pulled in, backed up to a concrete pit, and raised the rails, and flowers came out with crushed bones. He never said anything?
The Quarry had another incident; a Philadelphia Refuse company brought a load from a funeral parlor in North Philadelphia. The driver backs up, opens the door, and unlatches it. He puts the rails up and a casket comes out with a dead body coming out of it. Law Enforcement showed up. Blake does not know what happened after that.
