Word: covello
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...York City's Benjamin Franklin High School, a crowded, dilapidated school without playgrounds. Three-quarters of its students are foreign, most of them Italians and Puerto Ricans. Its neighborhood, Manhattan's East Harlem and Nazi-infested Yorkville, is a hotbed of racial strife. Principal Leonard Covello organized courses in intercultural understanding, got his pupils discussing whether there were any pure races, whether the "Aryan race" was superior to others. Soon students formed a Friends & Neighbors Club, cleaned two vacant stores next to the school as headquarters, held meetings and dances, started classes for their parents, read stories...