Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHOTOGRAPH IN LAST Thursday's New York Times showed James Sinkler after hearing that his son, Tyrone, was one of two students killed in the corridors of Brooklyn's Thomas Jefferson High School...
...hanging from her hand. Otherwise, her expression is almost identical to that of Sinkler, in the photo above--upper lip tucked in under lower lip, eyes blank. This same expression covers the faces of the teenage girls whose pictures were taken on the scene of the incident at Thomas Jefferson High...
...INCIDENT AT Thomas Jefferson was not just "one more illustration of the horrors of Black urban poverty," as so many white liberal columnist will undoubtedly term it over the course of the next few weeks (if they choose to write about it at all). Rather, it was an outrageous and tremendously upsetting event bred from a system of institutionalized and governmental imprisonment and oppression...
Perhaps the most striking thing about East New York is its enclosed, suffocating feeling. Most of the people live in the city's housing projects--brown brick buildings with narrow, dimly-lit corridors and miniature apartments. The schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High, have thick steel mesh spread across each broken window, and iron fences topped with masses of razor wire which surround the school and its playground...
Some of these school--unlike Thomas Jefferson--force their students to march through metal detectors in the beginning of each school...