Yale to Provide Funds to Ghetto In New Haven

The Yale Corporation, the university's governing body, will provide $40,000 to "do more about the problem of New Haven's black community," Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, announced Tuesday night.

The announcement came in response to recent requests by the Black Coalition, a federation of groups from New Haven's predominantly Negro Hill section, for funds to start, "neighborhood self-development." Brewster cited the Coalition as the "comprehensive representative of the community," and said that the funds are being given with "no strings attached."

Own Success

The money will be distributed by the Council on Community Affairs, which Brewster also created Tuesday night. Tracy Barnes, director of the Yale-staffed Council, stressed that it will not dictate policy. "We feel very strongly that these people ought to be able to make their own success or, with had luck, suffer defeat. But we shouldn't be telling them what to do," Barnes said.

Yale's decision came in the wake of the 'death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. According to Barnes, the Black Coalition was a major factor in "keeping things quiet" in New Haven following the assassination.