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...city is infected by white racist violence. Last month Auto Mechanic Spencer Goffer and his family moved into the Island, a white working-class neighborhood. The first night the Goffers spent in their new home, a mob of neighbors milled out front for six hours, shouting curses, throwing rocks through the windows and waving guns. The Goffers moved out the next day. In the same neighborhood, a Hispanic family's house was fire bombed on Thanksgiving. The same week, in a white neighborhood on the southwest side, a black family's house was set afire with a Molotov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City That No Longer Works | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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