Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Guerrero forgot to duck in the second round and was knocked clear out of the ring. Guerrero climbed back in, talked the referee out of stopping the fight. He then battled his way to the Golden Gloves welterweight championship. The heavyweight winner: 20-year-old Coley Wallace of Harlem, who looks like Joe Louis but doesn't fight as well; he was booed after winning...
...proud of almost everything but their schools. They know that most of these are nothing to brag about: often dingy and dilapidated, the teachers underpaid and overworked, the classrooms overcrowded and dirty. New Yorkers have suspected that the city's worst schools are in the costive squalor of Harlem. But just how bad Harlem's schools are, few New Yorkers knew until last week...
...group of doctors, psychologists and educators, heading the "Harlem Project," had spent four years collecting the shocking facts, and trying to do something about them. The project examined three schools: P.S. 120 for boys, P.S. 101 for girls, and P.S. 10, a co-ed elementary school. It found class after class of sullen and wretched children. There were boys who stole and "unmanageable girls" who screamed and shrieked and bit their neighbors. In one school, one out of five boys had been in court for truancy or delinquency...
...project found that 20% of the truants were too scared of gangs to walk to school. These gangs of schoolkids, who called themselves the "Noble Dukes," the "Socialists," or the "Majestics," roamed the streets of Harlem, in warfare that was not childish. In two years, three boys had been killed...
...yell at you, just kicks you in the shins and makes you get back in line." Not all Harlem teachers were so direct: many were hardworking, kindly people who tried to do their best. But the percentage of mean and ignorant teachers was high...