https://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Urban_Progress_Association&feed=atom&action=historyUrban Progress Association - Revision history2024-03-29T08:50:39ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.7https://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Urban_Progress_Association&diff=6421&oldid=prevPhil: /* References */2008-09-16T07:54:43Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">References</span></span></p>
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</table>Philhttps://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Urban_Progress_Association&diff=6414&oldid=prevPhil at 16:42, 15 September 20082008-09-15T16:42:23Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Little Rock Urban Progress Association''' was a public-private partnership founded by local private enterprise working with the city manager, city board of directors, [[Metroplan]] authorities, and the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]]. The Urban Progress Association coordinated the purchase of swaths of deteriorating property by the Little Rock Housing Authority, which demolis some structures and rehabilitated others.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Little Rock Urban Progress Association''' was a public-private partnership founded by local private enterprise working with the city manager, city board of directors, [[Metroplan]] authorities, and the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]]. The Urban Progress Association coordinated the purchase of swaths of deteriorating property by the Little Rock Housing Authority, which demolis some structures and rehabilitated others.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, two years after the [[City of Little Rock]] reorganized its government from a mayor-city council form to city manager-city board of directors</ins>. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the [[Philander Smith neighborhood]], $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the [[Granite Mountain neighborhood]], $1.3 million for renewal in the [[Livestock Show Area]], $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]]. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal in the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with the help of U.S. senators [[John McClellan]] and [[William Fulbright]] </ins>to engage in urban renewal activities in the [[Philander Smith neighborhood]], $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the [[Granite Mountain neighborhood]], $1.3 million for renewal in the [[Livestock Show Area]], $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]]. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal in the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Other prominent </del>attendees at the 1959 meeting <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">were </del>[[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss Sr.]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Prominent </ins>attendees at the 1959 meeting <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">included </ins>[[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss Sr.]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. In all the organization comprised forty men, including six local bank presidents, owners of three major department stores, chairmen of local utility companies, two newspaper editors, and numerous major property owners</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td></tr>
</table>Philhttps://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Urban_Progress_Association&diff=5433&oldid=prevPhil: /* References */2008-08-26T18:28:13Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">References</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Bob Sallee, "Decrying Downtown's Demise," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' June 17, 1997.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Bob Sallee, "Decrying Downtown's Demise," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' June 17, 1997.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*"What's Urban Renewal? It Halts the Blight and Rebuilds Cities," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' January 16, 1966.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Philhttps://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Urban_Progress_Association&diff=5412&oldid=prevPhil at 16:02, 25 August 20082008-08-25T16:02:55Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the [[Philander Smith neighborhood]], $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the [[Granite Mountain neighborhood]], $1.3 million for renewal in the [[Livestock Show Area]], $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]]. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal in the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the [[Philander Smith neighborhood]], $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the [[Granite Mountain neighborhood]], $1.3 million for renewal in the [[Livestock Show Area]], $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]]. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal in the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sr.</ins>]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association and Downtown Little Rock Unlimited merged into [[Little Rock Unlimited Progress]] in April 1970.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association and Downtown Little Rock Unlimited merged into [[Little Rock Unlimited Progress]] in April 1970.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the [[Philander Smith neighborhood]], $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the [[Granite Mountain neighborhood]], $1.3 million for renewal in the [[Livestock Show Area]], $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]]. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the [[Philander Smith neighborhood]], $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the [[Granite Mountain neighborhood]], $1.3 million for renewal in the [[Livestock Show Area]], $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the [[East End neighborhood]]. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] </ins>was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the Philander Smith neighborhood, $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the Granite Mountain neighborhood, $1.3 million for renewal in the Livestock Area, $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the East End. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Philander Smith neighborhood<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, $2.2 million for the [[Dunbar neighborhood]], $1.3 million for slum clearance in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Granite Mountain neighborhood<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, $1.3 million for renewal in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Livestock <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Show </ins>Area<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>East End <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">neighborhood]]</ins>. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td></tr>
</table>Philhttps://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Urban_Progress_Association&diff=5384&oldid=prevPhil at 18:08, 24 August 20082008-08-24T18:08:21Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the Philander Smith neighborhood, $2.2 million for the Dunbar neighborhood, $1.3 million for slum clearance in the Granite Mountain neighborhood, $1.3 million for renewal in the Livestock Area, $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the East End. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the Philander Smith neighborhood, $2.2 million for the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Dunbar neighborhood<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, $1.3 million for slum clearance in the Granite Mountain neighborhood, $1.3 million for renewal in the Livestock Area, $1.4 million in [[Westrock]], and $2.5 million in the East End. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association was formed on May 31, 1959. About three hundred people attended the first meeting and pledged to work together to modernize the city core. The first meeting of Urban Progress was held in conjunction with the first meeting of the group [[Downtown Little Rock Unlimited]], which dedicated itself to "saving" Main Street, then in decline. The two groups met in the [[Marion Hotel]]. [[J. Wythe Walker]] spoke for Urban Progress and [[Frank Lyon]] spoke on behalf of Downtown Little Rock Unlimited. Said Walker at the first meeting, "We believe that a prosperous Little Rock needs growing shopping facilities on the perimeter of the city as well as a healthy central business district; that each is dependent on the other; that, like Siamese twins, neither can grow without the other."  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the Philander Smith neighborhood, $2.2 million for the Dunbar neighborhood, $1.3 million for slum clearance in the Granite Mountain neighborhood, $1.3 million for renewal in the Livestock Area, $1.4 million in Westrock, and $2.5 million in the East End. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Urban Progress Association in Little Rock swiftly became a nationally-recognized leader in slum clearance in the 1950s and 1960s. The city received $282,928 to engage in urban renewal activities in the Philander Smith neighborhood, $2.2 million for the Dunbar neighborhood, $1.3 million for slum clearance in the Granite Mountain neighborhood, $1.3 million for renewal in the Livestock Area, $1.4 million in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Westrock<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and $2.5 million in the East End. In all, fifteen percent of the land area of the city underwent significant renewal activity. [[Raymond Rebsamen]], the president of the organization, claimed the group’s goal was to have "the first capital city in the national where no child will come out of a slum to go to school."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The vice president of Urban Progress was [[Arthur Phillips]]. Other elected board members included K. A. Engel, [[Hugh B. Patterson Jr.]], R. E. Ritchie, and [[W. R. Witt Stephens]], [[James H. Penick]], and [[Edward M. Penick]]. Other prominent attendees at the 1959 meeting were [[Jack East Jr.]], [[Houston Burford]], [[Louis Munos]], [[Hugo Heiman]], and [[Sam Strauss]].</div></td></tr>
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