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**Irish Mob-** The Irish people, in the 18th century started to come into the U.S. because America is known as the land of opportunity. Large amounts of people from Ireland kept coming in as immigrants. They started their own Mafia, which is one of the most important ancient organizations. They are an organizational group of crime. The Irish Mob’s are in the bigger American cities like New York City, New Orleans and Boston.   **Busing of 1974 in Southie-** The Irish white kids were being forced to go to school with African American kids because they were trying to mix races in the school, they were forcing desegregation. The Irish white kids felt as if it was worse off for them to go to their school rather than they going to their school. It was a down grade school for the Irish white kids. Riots started happening in Southie because the residents did not want the African American kids to be bussed in. The residents tried to keep them from coming, the way that they did so went from throwing rock at the windows to rocking the whole bus. **Michael Patrick McDonald-** He is the author of the book All Soul. He grew up in Boston. Michael saw so much poverty, crime and addiction he soon became a leading Boston activist. He worked with young people to stop the violence by starting anti- violence initiatives such as gun by back programs. He also collaborated with survivor families. He grew up in the Southie’s housing projects. He lost four of his brothers and sisters do to crime, drugs and poverty. After moving away he went back to Southie to help and be an activist for his childhood community.  **Rabbit Inn Incident-** In Boston, a person had thrown a brick into a police car. The policemen were in chase of several suspects into a bar called Rabbit Inn. The people in the bar had prevented the arrest of the suspects because they pulled the suspects away from the policemen. This prevented the arrest. The next night the policemen went back to the Rabbit Inn and beat the people at the bar up then trashed the bar. This was considered police brutality. **Whitey Bulger-** He was the Irish go to mob guy. He was an elected city official, this made things a lot easier for him to get away with. He organized crime so that it was as if the was none going on. Like you can stand on one corner and sell but not on another. All the dead body must be cleaned up before anyone sees them.  **Ray Flynn-** He had serve as the Boston mayor from 1984 until 1993. He resigned during his third term as mayor. Before politics Ray was an all American basketball player at Providence College. He represented Boston during the busing problems in the 1970’s. He had been a major influence within the Catholic alliance.  **Dorchester-** It was named after the Town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset. It is a dissolved municipality and is now a current neighborhood of Boston. It is the projects for African Americans. Dorchester is the reason for the Rabbit Inn Incident because the residents claimed white people from Southie drove by and tried to shoot them.  **National Boycott Day-** In October, Louise Day Hicks called National Boycott Day. Everyone boycotted school again because of the bussing riots. Kids that had been going to school had been getting phone calls of threats. They sang the national anthem and they were wanting to be segregated. However the national anthem talks about being untied and being one. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">