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Justin Mantineo The Michael Faith Incident took place at South Boston High a school in Southie (AKA South Boston). A bunch of students got into a shoving match outside of a classroom. The violence quickly escalated though, an 18 year old white student named Michael Faith got stabbed He was rushed to a hospital and police showed up at the school to try and control the mob. The mob attacked the police slashing their tires as well as flipping over several police cars. As they were doing this they chanted racist phrases and slurs such as “Why are we here? To get those niggers!” (Time). After this incident the tension in the town continued to grow. This event led to the Rabbit Inn Incident as well.
 * Michael Faith Incident**

"Education: Southie Boils Over - TIME." //Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com//. Web. 08 Jan. 2010. "Michael | Hexham & Newcastle Diocesan Youth Ministry Team." //Hexham & Newcastle Diocesan Youth Ministry Team |.// Web. 08 Jan. 2010. Justin Mantineo The Rabbit Inn incident took place shortly after the Michael Faith incident in southie. After the incident the court ordered the desegregation of Boston schools. According to Mayor Kevin H. White, “We can no longer maintain either the appearance or reality of public safety” (Time). After this a lot of violence erupted in a series of riots. Much of the violence took place along Dorchester Street, which is where Rabbit Inn is. During the days to follow the area became flooded with law enforcement officers, there were over 300 officers in the area. The night before the Rabbit Inn incident police tried to arrest a suspect but two-dozen citizens got in their way and the man escaped in the crowd. The next night two-dozen police officers burst into the Rabbit Inn. During the raid they injured 8 patrons. After the raid the violence throughout the town simply continued to escalate.
 * Rabbit Inn Incident**

"BOSTON: From the Schools To the Streets - TIME." //Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com//. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.

Justin Mantineo In south boston over 10,000 demonstrators marched down the streets to celebrate “National Boycott Day”. They are doing this because of the desegregation of schools that is currently going on in Boston at the time. Most of the schools are calm given the situation, but two schools are causing a lot of trouble. These two schools are South Boston High and Charleston High. In these schools students are fighting every day. All of the black students in the area boycotted classes because of the desegregation. According to time they did this in order to protest, “widespread discrimination” (TIME). The schools will continue to fight for quite a while after this until agreements are met and a balance is made.
 * National Boycott Day**

"Education: A New Idea on Busing - TIME." Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.

By Matt Collaco James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was the leader of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime family in Boston. He was born September 3rd 1929. Whitey was formerly the president of the Massachusetts state senate and the university of Massachusetts. In 1999 Bulger Found himself to be on the top 10 of the FBI’s most wanted list. The start of Bulger’s criminal career was in the early to mid ‘50s. during this time period he had hijacked a liquor truck and also robbed a few banks. Bulger then had a warrant out for his arrest and he was eventually caught and sentenced to 25 years in prison for armed robbery and hijacking. He was then released after only serving 9 years in prison. Once Bulger had joined the winter hill gang he quickly became one of winters main men. Winter the former leader of the group and a few choice people of his inner circle were arrested and charged with fixing horse races. Because of this incident, Bulger took over leadership of the gang. The Winter Hill Gang during this time when Bulger had leadership was the most powerful gang in Boston. According to sources from that time period, “They were also the main cocaine and marijuana distributor in the state, receiving their drugs from a Cuban-American gang based in South Florida” (Wikipedia). The 1908’s were a huge time for Bulger when it came to drug trafficking. Bulger had the whole Boston area under control as far as the selling of drugs and the movement of drugs in and out of Boston. All of these things ‘Whitey’ Bulger did are what collectively got him onto the FBI’s most wanted list and one of the most dangerous men in America.
 * Whitey Bulger**

"James J. Bulger -." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.

By Matt Collaco The Irish mob is one of the oldest organized crime groups in America. The Irish mob has managed to find itself in all major cities of the United States including South Boston. The earliest Irish gangsters came up out of the prohibition era in the United States. The Winter Hill Gang was one of the most successful organized crime groups in American History. The Winter Hill Gang came out of Boston. According to historians, “They are perhaps best known for fixing horse races in the northeastern United States” (Wikipedia). The most famous leader of this gang was James “Whitey” Bulger. Bulger took over the gang and took it in a new direction after his predecessor was arrested. This made the Winter Hill Gang one of the most dangerous and famous Irish mobs in America’s history.
 * Irish Mob**

"Irish Mob -." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.

Matt Collaco The Irish first immigrated to America because Ireland was full of poverty disease and overrun by English oppression. The ships that they first came on we packed so tight that they were referred to as coffin ships. According to one Irish immigrant, “Our position in America is one of shame and poverty” (Kinsella). During the 1800’s Irish immigrants were the lowest in the food chain. No group was considered to be lower than an Irish immigrant. Irish immigrants were forced into little “shanty towns” where they were in poverty amongst their own Irish people. The Irish bonded a lot by drinking together and eventually started to go on the offensive against the rest of society. The Irish were so determined to become apart of America and be respected that one newspaper wrote, “ The Irish have become more Americanized than the Americans ” (Kinsella). "Irish Immigrants in America during the 19th Century." //Kinsella page//. Web. 08 Jan. 2010. Bryce Lothe The busing of 1974 in South Boston (Southie) was when they desegregated the schools in the north. There where major problems in South Boston because of the racism streaming through Boston. On this website about the busing of 1974 the problems where said, “Because students were assigned to schools based on where they lived, schools in primarily white areas such as South Boston and Charlestown had a mostly white student body, while schools in black areas such as Roxbury were overwhelmingly black” (Cozzens). The problems with this desegregation only grew worse and worse. Anytime a white kid brushed passed a black kid or a black kid bumped into a white kid a fight would break out. Sometimes if these fights broke out they would dismiss school for the rest of the day because only more fights would continue. In December 11th racial tensions only got worse, that day a black kid stabbed a white kid in class and everyone freaked out. There where mobs formed around the school and they wanted to kill all the black students, but the principal had them all hide in his office. After Plan I totally Failed then Plan II was put into effect and soon enough busing was completely taken out of Southie and Roxbury.
 * Irish Immigration to America**
 * Busing of 1974 in Southie**

Cozzens, Lisa. "School Integration (1955-1975)" African American History. Web. (25 May 1998).

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 * Michael Patrick MacDonald

The author of All Souls: A family Story From Southie is Michael Patrick MacDonald. He also did a lot of public speaking about Race and Class in America and also Trauma, Healing, and Social Change. Proving that his life needed improvement was when he said, “I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston” (MacDonald). He was an Irish-American born in March 9, 1966. He was an activist against crime and violence and was born and raised in South Boston, Massachusetts. He helped create a program in Boston called the gun-buyback program and also founded the South Boston Vigil Group. This program worked with the survivors families and young people in Boston’s anti-violence movement. He felt his life was meant to help create a better society by starting with Boston.

Michael Patrick MacDonald -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.

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 * Ray Flynn**

Ray Flynn was the mayor of Boston in the worst of its time as a city. In his early life he was an All-American basketball player at Providence and was also MVP in the 1963 National Invitation Tournament. As said in an article about Ray Flynn, “He later served on the Boston City Council from 1978 to 1984, before successfully running for Mayor of Boston” (Wikipedia). This quote from his biography explains his political life. In the beginning of his political career he was a Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He helped to represent the South Boston neighborhood during its busing crisis in the early 1970s. Ray Flynn ended up serving 3 terms as mayor. During his third term Clinton appointed Ray Flynn to U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. Ray Flynn ended up running for the Massachusette’s 8th congressional district and lost.

"Raymond Flynn -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 11 Jan. 2010.

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 * Roxbury**

Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts USA. Roxbury now generally ends at Columbus Avenue to the north and Lenox Street to the east. Roxbury is now one of 21 official neighborhoods of Boston, used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. A quote in this article on Roxbury said, “The arrival of the crack epidemic in the 1980s helped make Roxbury one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Boston” (Wikipedia). The original boundaries of the Town of Roxbury can be found in Drake's History of Roxbury and its noted Personages. This side of the Muddy River is Roxbury; the other side is Brookline and Boston. Franklin Park, once entirely within Roxbury when Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Roslindale were villages within the town of Roxbury until 1854, has been divided with the line between Jamaica Plain and Roxbury located in the vicinity of Peter Parley Road on Walnut Avenue, through the park to Columbia Road. Melnea Cass Boulevard is located approximately over the Roxbury Canal that brought boats into Roxbury bypassing the busy port of Boston in the 1830s. Many remember the furniture store there known as Ferdinand's Blue Store, as the elevated train bisected the building.

"Roxbury, Boston -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 11 Jan. 2010.

Tommy Pilgrim Dorchester is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts that was settled in May of 1630. In the more recent years, this neighborhood is a large community with a huge amount of diversity. African Americans, Carribbean Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. The neighborhood is also known as the center of the Irish American immigration. With all of this immigration into Dorchester, it has been made the largest and most populous community in Boston. In addition Dorchester has been known to be a very suburban community, as a Dorchester history site writes, “Dorchester never developed beyond the stage of a suburban residential community, and many of its houses and monuments have been preserved from the destruction that goes with industrialization” (Walczak). The neighborhood is very traditional; having a lot of the buildings that were built around the time it was settled still standing. Such examples include the Old Blake House that was built in 1648 and the Pierce House that built prior to the Revolutionary War.
 * Dorchester**

"Dorchester, Boston -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 06 Jan. 2010. Walczak, Bill. "History of Dorchester, MA." Dorchester Reporter. 2001. Web. 06 Jan. 2010.

Tommy Pilgrim Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston and became a part of Boston when Dorchester (another Boston neighborhood) was annexed in 1870. This neighborhood is the home to a wide variety of immigrants from across a large racial spectrum. As the Boston official website writes, “a diverse population of Irish, Jewish, and Haitian immigrants has settled here in large numbers” (Mattapan – City of Boston). Before this widespread of diverse population, there was a dominant population of Jewish immigrants. During the 1960s and 1970s, the banks used redlining (raising the price of houses for a certain race, which in this case for Jewish people) and blockbusting (the action of encouraging white house owners to sell by implying racial lies) to scare white house owners to move. This caused a flood of Irish, African American, and Haitian immigrants. Nowadays the neighborhood is a diverse populated neighborhood, with residential housing. Housing includes public housing, small apartment buildings, single-family houses, and two and three family houses (Mattapan, Massachusetts).
 * Mattapan**

"Mattapan - City of Boston." Welcome to the City of Boston. Web. 06 Jan. 2010. "Mattapan, Massachusetts -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 06 Jan. 2010.

Tommy Pilgrim Southie, also known as South Boston is a very popular neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. It is popular with Irish-American immigrants that fall in the working class category. Although it is very popular, it is also known to be one of the poorest white urban neighborhoods in the U.S. South Boston has been a very important neighborhood in the national attention of rights. As wikipedia writes, “During the 1970s, South Boston received national attention for its opposition to court-mandated school (de facto) desegregation by busing students to different neighborhoods” (South Boston, Boston) and “In the 1990s, South Boston became the focus for a Supreme Court case on the right of gay and lesbian groups to participate in the Saint Patrick's Day (Evacuation Day) parade” (South Boston, Boston). These two national controversies helped gain support for both sides in the debate. South Boston is a huge influential factor in many of the nations rights cases. Seeing as it represents a large number of the working class citizens, it should have a lot of influence. South Boston is a neighborhood just like its neighbors Dorchester and Mattapan when it comes to diversity and influence for immigrants.
 * Southie or South Boston**

"South Boston, Boston." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 07 Jan. 2010.

Tommy Pilgrim Southies Old Colony Housing Projects is a housing for moderate to low-income families living in South Boston. The housing development was built in 1941 and was created in the middle of the immigrant rush into Boston. The rent, as the official site for the housing development is, “calculated at 30% of a resident’s income” (Boston Housing Authority - Old Colony). This means that the very poor individuals will have a safe haven to live at. People didn’t have to worry about how much money they made, because it was always set at a 30% of their income. One famous person that actually occupied one of these rooms was Michael Patrick MacDonald. After seeing four of his family members die, and his whole generation die off he became an activist. His books portray the things he saw from this housing project. The Old Colony Housing Projects were the heart of what was really going on in South Boston with the violence and poverty.
 * Southie’s Old Colony Housing Projects**

"Boston Housing Authority - Old Colony." Boston Housing Authority - Welcome to the Boston Housing Authority. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.

"Michael Patrick MacDonald : Biography and Speaking Information." Michael Patrick MacDonald : Author of All Souls and Easter Rising. Web. 08 Jan. 2010.