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anniversary celebrations in 1998, Justa's early leadership was lauded: "She knew the challenges of trying to improve and redevelop a community like lower Park Slope while simultaneously preventing displacement and creating opportunity for low- and moderate-income residents. Those early strategy sessions and years of hard work laid the foundation for the next twenty years."
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their skin, their language skills, their religion. What will be the first rules of apartheid and what techniques will be used to separate ourselves from "them"? How will we objectify and dehumanize others? It is very hard for us to identify the criminals as co-victims. Especially when we struggle ourselves.
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Justa was also active on the boards of many private and public corporations, including the
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Also in 1976, Justa joined other community members in forming the Fifth Avenue
Neighborhood Committee, later simply the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC). FAC was incorporated in 1978 with Justa as its first president. The organization has been very successful and continues to thrive today. At FAC's 20th
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In 1976, after the release of a report by the New York Public
Interest Research Group titled "Take the Money and Run: Redlining in Brooklyn," Justa and other concerned community members from the UBA started the group United Blocks Against Investment Discrimination (AID). AID was disbanded after the
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In 1975, Justa studied the Little Italy
Restoration Association as part of her graduate coursework, and it helped her to "recognize and understand the connection between not-for-profit groups and funding from city, state, federal and private sources." This work and the insights that stemmed from it
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In 1973, Justa started a block association for her block of
Carroll Street in Park Slope. The Carroll Street Block Association was incorporated in 1974 with Justa as its first president, a position that she held for three years. The Carroll Street Block Association was a member of the United Block
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In addition to her dissertation, Justa wrote a number of additional articles, essays, and letters on the subject of urban revitalization and community activism. For example, in relation to her activities with the Fifth Avenue
Committee, Justa wrote an article for a local newspaper
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Kornbluth, "there was a goodness and altruism that encompassed all that Fran did" and "she felt that all people should be treated fairly, justly, equitably, and sympathetically." This is evident in words that she wrote in January 1985:
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Resource Center, the National Insurance Task Force, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Campaign for Homeownership, and Women in Housing and Finance, as well as advisory and community boards for several commercial banks.
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in 1978 titled "Saving Our City Shouldn't Be This Hard". In it, she lambasts the city officials and bureaucracy that prevented community residents from making meaningful change in their neighborhood.
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