Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spotty & Slow." The problem is notably acute in New York, which prides itself on being the nation's most tolerant city. Between 1950 and 1957, New York lost to the suburbs a continental white population numbering about 750,000, gained a Negro and Puerto Rican-immigrant population of nearly 650,000. In sore-spot Manhattan, about 70% of public school children are now Negro and Puerto Rican. More than half (455) of the 704 city schools examined are virtually segregated, and the number is apparently increasing...
...increase riles the American Jewish Congress, which offered solid evidence in its 57-page report that the segregated Negro and Puerto Rican children are as much as three years behind in their studies because of sagging morale and poorly qualified teachers. Equally discouraging is the ironic fact that New York is the only Northern city with a real blueprint for solving de facto segregation...
...noted, the heat was oppressive; the area was a slum; the killers had contacts with a marijuana salesman; they were all Puerto Rican immigrants; the two leaders had stepparents, and one lived with a sister whose husband had deserted her. Yet the city scoffed at the "theory that blames juvenile crime primarily on environment...
Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...state law to slow down the inflow of penniless migrants by requiring a one-year residence -normal in most states-before a newcomer becomes eligible for relief payments, and 2) a civic campaign to discourage migration to the city from "all parts of the country and the Caribbean." Puerto Rican children, he said, flashing a sheaf of papers, account for 20% of the juvenile delinquency in the city...