With all the pieces seemingly in place, Senator Kennedy finally announced the creation of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Renewal and Rehabilitation Corporation (R&R) and its sister organization, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Development and Services Corporation (D&S), at a CBCC convention on December 9, 1966, just over ten months after his first tour of Bed-Stuy. While R&R’s board was composed almost entirely of local blacks, the D&S board was made up of the high-profile whites Kennedy had recruited.
