Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn...
...different directions, heading for silent houses in Queens and other parts of New York City and Long Island. Minutes after sunrise, the squads simultaneously rapped on 15 doors and arrested a surprisingly respectable group of 16 Negro citizens. Among them were Assistant Junior High School Principal Herman Ferguson, 47, Brooklyn Schoolteacher Ursula West, 28, and Michelle Kaurouma, 24, the attractive wife of a French Guinean student. At almost the same time in Philadelphia, police arrested a 17th suspect...
...Sorrentino has 25 scars on his hands to prove that he was one of the best street fighters that Brooklyn's tough Fort Hamilton neighborhood ever had. By the time he was 20, he had flunked out of high school four times, had been booted out of the Marines and had lost 30 jobs. That was ten years ago. This month Joe Sorrentino, now 30, was valedictorian of Harvard Law School. "It has been a long journey to this honor," he told the commencement audience, in what was almost certainly the year's most moving graduation address...
...Fort Hamilton, an achiever had to be handy with his fists. A veteran of more than 100 rumbles, Joe was put on probation by a juvenile court after one particularly bloody street fight. "When I was in my first year, I failed out of Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn," he said in his address. "Not long after, I enrolled in Bay Ridge High School at night. I failed there also. I tried a third time at Bay Ridge, but could not last the term. Then I attended Washington Irving at night, and again could not finish...
...enlisted in the Marines, but could not stand the discipline and "rebelled, fighting with recruits, rioting in the mess hall, trying to run away through the swamps of Parris Island" boot camp. Judged an incorrigible, he was sent packing with a general discharge. Back in Brooklyn, he was a hero to his old street-gang buddies. But somehow within himself Joe felt ashamed. At 20, he came to realize that "my only chance for a better life was through education." So he went back to high school, for the fifth time, at night, working days in a supermarket. After...