LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1953: North America
built 657 days ago
Since 1953, Junior Blind of America has remained deeply committed to helping blind and visually impaired people of all ages achieve an essential cornerstone of personal dignity -- independence. Each year, Junior Blind of America provides services to thousands of individuals and their families in six nationally recognized programs that offer innovative and individualized methods of education, recreation, training and rehabilitation. These life- changing programs are designed to empower infants, children, teens and adults to reach their highest level of potential, independence and self-esteem. The organization's more than half-century of service has earned a four-star rating by one of the nation's leading donor guides, Charity Navigator, the highest rating granted by the public service. To learn more, please visit http://www.juniorblind.org.
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While Keep America Beautiful, Inc. was originally founded in 1953, Lady Bird's tireless advocacy for the organization throughout the 1960s brought national attention to the organization's mission to bring natural beauty to America's public spaces. As first lady, she was instrumental in convening the White House Conference on Natural Beauty in 1965, and afterward championed the findings through her public support of the Keep America Beautiful organization.
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When the 1953 models were introduced, the Canadian Plymouth had the 218.0-cid engine. On May 15, 1953 Chrysler of Canada introduced a new Belvedere series (P-24-3) available in sedan and hardtop (special club coupe). With that, the old Cranbrook Belvedere hardtop was dropped.Hy-Drive was now an option and the engine was increased in size across the board to 228.1-cid. All imported models used the American engine and interiors.
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Since 1953, the nonprofit Western Writers of America has promoted and honored the best in Western literature with the annual Spur Awards, selected by panels of judges. Awards, for material published last year, are given for works whose inspiration, image and literary excellence best represent the reality and spirit of the American West.
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Canadian-built 1953-54 Plymouths featured the usual variations, most notably the long-block six. Manual transmission cars came with the familiar 218 cubic inch motor. When Hy-Drive, and later, Powerflite, transmissions were ordered, a new 228 cubic inch engine (formerly exclusive to the Canadian-built, American-style Coronet) was installed.
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South Deering erupted in violence in 1953 over the issue of racial integration at the neighborhood's lone public housing project, Trumbull Park Homes, located at 105th Street and Yates Avenue. Since 1937, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had maintained an unstated policy to house only whites at projects that, like Trumbull Park, were located in entirely white neighborhoods. However, the project was “accidentally” integrated on July 30, 1953, because the CHA assumed that Betty Howard, an exceptionally fair-skinned African American, was white. Beginning on August 5 and continuing nightly for weeks thereafter, crowds of whites directed fireworks, rocks, and racial epithets toward Betty and Donald Howard's apartment. Police responded with a show of force but few arrests. South Deering leaders openly pressured Chicago politicians and the CHA to remove the Howards, while progressive forces argued for further integration.
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