Columbia Point was the historic landing-site of Puritan settlers in 1630. Later, the area was used as a cow pasture, a dumping ground, and then as a WW II POW camp. Isolated and nearly contaminated, it seemed like a less-than-ideal site for a massive public housing project.
The origins of the Christian Front could be traced to Arnold Lunn, a British Catholic incensed by anti-Catholic atrocities in the Spanish Civil War. As a defense against Communist “Popular Fronts” Lunn envisioned a “ecumenical” Christian Front of Catholics and Protestants.
As Spain was engulfed by civil war, both the American people and FDR’s State Department were firmly opposed to any U.S. intervention in the conflict. Secretary of State Cordell Hull was a strong advocate for an arms embargo. 2/17 
The origins of broader “Mau Mau” movement are somewhat murky. But it seems clear that several of the Chicago Mau Mau killers were disgruntled Vietnam veterans. This included Marines Ruben Taylor, Michael Clark, and Nathanial Burse.
The city simply could not cope with the deluge. Poverty stricken and unskilled, the new arrivals were packed into crowded tenements. Disease and unsanitary conditions took a terrible toll. During a cholera epidemic, the life-expectancy of Irish males fell to fourteen years. 2/26 
The advent of NYC public transportation transformed the borough from farmland to a “streetcar suburb.” The population exploded with ethnic immigrants – Mainly Jews, but also Irish and Italians. Even during hard economic times The Bronx had been a safe place for families.
"... perhaps as many as three million may have perished either as a result of outright massacre or from cold, hunger, and disease." 
In the mid-1960s Lewenberg Middle School in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood looked like an incredible success story. In addition to a stellar academic reputation, the school had also been one of the few in Boston to achieve some level of racial balance. 
By the 1950s, most wealthy Jews had abandoned Boston for the suburbs, and the temple had been purchased by a Lubavitcher sect, who lacked funds to maintain it. They soon found themselves under siege in a neighborhood that was now overwhelmingly Black and increasingly hostile. 
Over the decades, Roxbury had experienced waves of ethnic transition - from Yankee protestant, to mainly Irish Catholic, to Eastern European Jewish. But the transition from Jewish to Black would be the most turbulent. Crime skyrocketed; there were riots in 1967 and 1968. 
Wilson’s crime in the eyes of his leftist colleagues was rejecting the idea of the “Blank Slate” – Theorizing that human traits and behaviors have evolved, genetic roots - That “nature” may play a more dominant role than “nurture.” 
1957, 1967, and 2003:
Jamal (born Alan Donaldson) grew up in the "vibrant" Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. There he had a passing acquaintance with a young man known as “Detroit Red,” who the world would later know as Malcolm X. Jamal would milk this connection for profit for the rest of his life. 
At first this expanding suffrage strategy was successful, as the more educated, politically-savvy Yankee women voters quickly mobilized. And in the 1920s the Yankee women tended to vote overwhelmingly Republican, just like the Yankee men. 
Some of the “Zebras” met while they were serving time in San Quentin State Prison in 1973. Here, Jesse Lee Cooks would often share his fantasies of mass-murdering Whites – especially children or the elderly. 
Rozier was an outstanding high school athlete, which helps explain how he managed to get into one of America’s elite universities despite his 1.32 high school GPA and lack of a diploma. 
University "intellectuals" saw themselves as the "ideological benefactors" for a new proletariat of "women, non-whites, put-upon white ethnics, homosexuals, transsexuals, the polymorphously perverse, pornographers, prostitutes (sex workers),
The most shocking incident was the immolation of Evelyn Wagler on Tuesday, October 2 - the account of her murder reads like a script from a horror movie. Wagler (called Rene by friends) had run out of gas near her home. She walked to a service station with a two-gallon gas can. 
Despite being a juvenile delinquent and high school drop-out, Hart managed to work his way into an apprenticeship with Italian master carver Roger Morigi at Washington National Cathedral. With Morigi's encouragement, Hart entered and won a prestigious international competition. 
Wolfe finds roots for the tech revolution in Dissenting Protestant culture in the unlikely location of Grinnell, Iowa, where the of a son of a Congregational minister - Robert Noyce, inventor of the first practical microchip and co-founder of Intel - studied engineering. 
Nixon had sought accommodation with the Left by leaving LBJ’s Great Society in place, and by appointing liberals and moderates (e.g. Moynihan, Romney) to his administration. (Buchanan thought this was a mistake, believing Nixon should have reached out to Wallace supporters). 
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