Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Second Chance" describes the helping hand extended to youngsters at the Job Corps' center in New Bedford, Mass., focusing on a 17-year-old Puerto Rican high school dropout from New York City and the Job Corps' effect on his life...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A pitiless exposure of poverty among Puerto Rican Americans, whose life stories are told largely by the subjects themselves into Anthropologist Lewis' tape recorder...
...Fernanda Fuentes Ríos, a Puerto Rican American of Negro blood, has had six husbands. Junior, her sixth, is 19. Fernandá's youngest daughter Cruz is 18. She is currently estranged from her third husband, but not to the point of refusing him occasional access to her favors. Felicita and Soledad, two other daughters of Fernanda's, are whores. They are also good mothers, although somewhat unconventional: the lullabies that soothe Felicita's children would redden a longshoreman's ears. Fernanda's only son, Simplicio, 21, ran away from home...
...Mayor rushed back and began touring the area slowly, circling and re-circling the blocks. But the tension had already burst. Gangs of 25 to 100 Negro and Puerto Rican youths roamed the streets, tossing garbage cans through store windows and looting. On roofs, others hurled tire jacks and bricks at passing police cars. As the violence spread, those who weren't on the streets gathered at windows and doorways. "Oh, this is good. I'm going in to get some chairs so we can enjoy it in comfort," a reporter overheard one Negro woman exclaim. Violence raged on most...
...angry demonstration that ended with Lindsay in the midst of a cheering crowd and a meeting of community leaders whose end signaled a night of blood and violence: these two incidents outline the double view that New York's thousands of Negro and Puerto Rican citizens hold of their Mayor. Lindsay demonstrates his almost puritanical commitment to the principle of social equality every day: he walks the streets of Harlem, he appoints a civilian review board, he fights with Washington for more anti-poverty money. But these sincere efforts have so far failed to bring forth much that people...