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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University was founded in September of 1968 with a grant of $700,000 from the Ford Foundation. After the urban riots of the late 1960’s, Ford spearheaded the founding of fourteen such centers around the country. Northwestern’s Center, however, is the only one of its kind to have survived with its initial purpose intact. Working with a group of faculty fellows, research associates, visiting scholars and graduate students, the...