P1+Monte+P,+Cory+B.,+Jiro+M

“Michael Patrick MacDonald”. //MichaelPatrickMacDonald.com//. n.d. Web. 07 January 2011.

2. Michael Faith Incident 3. Monte Parks 4. On December 23 in 1974 there was a big high school riot involving white and black high school students. The riot began because one of the black students called out a name or where he was from and yells started chanting and beginning on the ways things were made. A fight broke out and Michael Faith who was 18 at the time got stabbed by a black student James White who was also 18. The action of James white cause Faith to be taken to the hospital for surgery. After all of the crowds all the black students at the high school were taken on a bus and driven back to Roxbury all the way across town. People were enraged and pissed off at the fact that someone got stabbed and had to figure out a way to do something and they found out that pushing them back to where they came was a good enough idea. 5. “Within minutes of the attack, hordes of irate “Southie” residents surged in front of the high school’s imposing iron gates” (Time Magazine)

2. Rabbit Inn Incident 3. Monte Parks 4. In October of 1974 there was a situation where a black teen was seen hanging from a rail while white students grabbed onto his shirt and beat him with bats. This was a huge case in which started because of the entire community and the racial confrontation of how things worked back then. The racial things worked from the making and how things can work out and how it makes the ways people can see things. The white students were enraged because black students were starting to come in to the area and become main parts of the schools. It was so bad that the buses carrying black students were greeted with jeers and rocks. 5. “ Violence which once focused on the schools and buses is now engulfing the entire community in racial confrontation.

2. National Boycott Day 3. Monte Parks 4. In Boston it was one of the most amazing days in the history of the world. Boston had many immigrants in around the time of 1960 and 70. On this day they were asked to stay home and not go out and spend any money to show respect for the immigrants who did not have a job and people out helping them. It was a huge immigrant rights law moment and to say that they should be treated fairly and deserve a lot of time and different things. the difference with what was being and how it changed the life of different immigrants is it gave them the chance to be the people they wanted to be and have a good and safe life where they wanted to live. they wanted to have jobs and take care of family but could not do that if they did not have a job. this day was saying that everyone should be treated equally and should all have the same benefits. 5. “today is May Day, which in the old days when labor had some clout in this country meant unruly socialist rallies and general anarchy in the streets” (Bostonist)

2. Whitney Bulger 3. Monte Parks 4. Whitney Bulger was the boss of the Irish mob in Boston. He was one of the most feared men in Boston in the late 60’s early 70’s. He was the man who thrived on contradictions. Most notice with the FBI. He used the info from the FBI to gain his power and become Boston’s top organized crime boss more powerful then the Mafia. 5. Evidence says that he had a long and violent run with the FBI in which he escaped and because of them he is still out there. Bulger ruled mostly all of underground Boston and controlled many businesses and people. Bulger to this day is still one of Boston’s biggest crime bosses.

2. Irish Mob 3. Monte Parks 4. The Irish mob a crime set based in the early 19th century all through the years of gaining control and making different stances and how many things they could change and make an affect on what happens. Different mobs have been in the same stance and the mobs have all had different leaders and goals to try and control all of Boston or just certain parts of Boston. Underground Boston was the most common place for Irish mobs to hang out or take control of because then the police could not get to them as easily or to them in a way that they could be safe and work on business. Irish mobs are one of the only mobs who’s crimes were organized and based on plan and timing. They all did different crimes throughout the years including Robbery, Murder, Inside jobs it all matter on the time of year or what the goals were for the mob.


 * Irish Immigration to America**
 * By:** Jiro Molina

The Irish where unfortunately divided during the nineteenth century. The Act of Union of 1803 incorporated the island into British polity, but it was useless in easing the difficult situation of the people. With an overly large population as the result of the Napoleanic Wars, the Irish soon became impoverished (Thinkquest.org). Many Irish had no alternative by to immigrate tothe United States for relief, but migrating to America is too expensive for the Irish. Many Irish soon found it convenient to take the affordable trip to Canada, where they can buy cheaper fare to the United States or more cheaper, they could just walk across the border. In 1845, the great potato rot touched off a mass migration. The disaster eliminated the sole subsistence of millions of peasants, thrusting them in the edge of starvation. For five weary years, the crops remained undependable, and famine swept through the land. Untold thousands perished, and the survivors, destitute of hope, wished only to get away (Thinkquest.org).


 * Busing of 1974 in Southie**
 * By:** Jiro Molina

The contemporary movement for racial equality in America began in the schools, and during the 1960s and 1970s, no word stirred up more explosive feelings than "busing"(abc-clio). The polices escort school buses carrying African- children from the Gavin school in South Boston back to their Roxbury neighborhood on September 16, 1974, the third day of court ordered busing to integrate the Boston public schools. The transportation of children across in the school district lines is for the explicit purpose of desegregation, it was the most visible and controversial issue involving race in the United States.


 * Michael Patrick MacDonald**
 * By:** Jiro Molina

Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in South Boston’s old Colony Housing Project. After losing four siblings and seeing his generation decimated by poverty, crime, and addiction, he became a leading Boston activist, helping launch many antiviolence initiatives, including gun-buyback programs (MichaelPatrickMacDonald.com). MacDonald became also a famous writer. One of the famous books that MacDonald wrote is the “All Souls”, and won the American Book Award on the year 2000. MacDonald has written numerous essays for the Boston Globe Op-Ed Page. Also MacDonald completed the screenplay of “All Souls” for the director Ron Shelton.


 * Ray Flynn**
 * By:** Jiro Molina

Raymond Flynn is the Mayor of the South Boston in year 1984-1993. Ray Flynn began his illustrious political career in 1971, representing South Boston in the State House, then moved to the Boston City Council before becoming the mayor of the South Boston (IrishMassachusetts.com). Flynn leads the South Boston very well, all of his people like him because of his equal treatment to the citizen of the South Boston.

 Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Roxbury is one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868 (abc-clio). The original town of Roxbury once included the current Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, the South End and much of Back Bay. Roxbury now generally ends at Hammond St, Davenport St to the east and East Lenox St or Melnea Cass Blvd to the south (abc-clio). Now the Roxbury is one of 21 official neighborhoods of Boston, used by the city for neighborhood services. The Roxbury asserts that it “serves as the heart of black culture in Boston”.
 * Roxbury**
 * By:** Jiro Molina

Cory Bull: Dorchester, Mattapan, Southie, Old Colony Housing Project

Dorchester:  Dorchester is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston (Palimeri). It is named after the town of Dorchester. in the English county of Dorset, where Puritans emigrated (Clapp) and is today endearingly nicknamed "Dot" by its residents (Sweeney). Dorchester is a large part of Boston. Dorchester has numerous squares and sections of neighborhoods. Dorchester is known for it’s Irish population and its ever-growing gay population. It is located south of Downtown Boston. Its population blossomed when streetcar and railroads were introduced to the city. Modern Dorchester was known as “center of civil rights activism” (Wikipedia). During the 50’s, Dorchester held residents the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and many other civil rights advocates. Because of this, many African-Americans and Latinos have joined the Dorchester community and have helped turn it in to a working class community.

Mattapan: Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston. It is located near Dorchester, and it became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870. Just like Dorchester, Mattapan “developed residentially and commercially, as the railroads and streetcars made downtown Boston increasingly accessible” (Wikipedia). Because of this Mattapan is mostly residential. Mattapan has a diversity of public housing, small apartments, single-family houses, and two/three-family houses, known as Triple-Deckers. Mattapan is known in Native American as a “good place to sit”. African Americans and Caribbean Americans mostly populate Mattapan. Mattapan is known as a small residential area in the Dorchester region, and is has a reputation as a small town.

Southie: South Boston, known as Southie, is a densely populated neighborhood in Boston. It is located by the Dorchester Bay. Southie is known for its hard working-class of Irish Americans. It not only houses Irish Americans, but also Lithuanian and Polish families as well. “South Boston gained an identity separate from Dorchester, but the two were annexed by Boston in pieces, from 1804 to 1870” (Wikipedia). Southie was a part of the Dorchester Neck, and used to be called that by its residents. Landfill however, enlarged the isthmus. Southie and Dorchester have frequently been compared to as the same neighborhood, but residents of both neighborhoods strongly disagree. Southie is known for its frequent reference in pop culture. Many movies, such as The Departed and The Town, were filmed and based in Southie, and bands like Dropkick Murphy’s are rooted deep in the Irish American culture of South Boston.

Old Colony Housing Project: The Old Colony Housing Project is a housing project located in Southie on East Ninth Street. It was built in 1941, and is one of Southie’s oldest housing developments. The Old Colony Housing Project is home to many people including Michael Patrick MacDonald, the writer of All Souls. Also, “it was the home of the notorious Whitey Bulger an Irish mobster” (Wikipedia). Whitey Bulger is a Irish Crime Boss known for his involvement in the Winter Hill Gang. Bulger is wanted for racketeering, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, money laundering, and narcotics distribution. Old Colony Housing Project is the home of author Michael Patrick MacDonald. He is the author of All Souls, and revisits his life through the book, which explains the hardships, poverty, drugs, and violence of the housing project.

Works Cited
 * Cory**

Clapp, Ebenezer. //History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts//. Dorchester, Boston, MA: Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, 1890.

Palimeri, John. //Boston Redevelopment Authority//. Boston’s Neighborhood. 5 Jan. 2011. Web.

Sweeney, Emily. “Dot. Dot. Dot.” //Boston Globe.// 18 Sep. 2005: Boston Globe.

//Wikipedia.// Mattapan. 5 Jan. 2011. Web.

//Wikipedia//. Old Colony Housing Project. 6 Jan. 2011. Web.

//Wikipedia//. South Boston. 6 Jan. 2011. Web.

Southie Boils Over” Time Magazine. Time magazine, 23 December 1974 Web. 6 January 2011.
 * Monte**

“From the schools to the streets” Time Magazine. Time magazine, 21 October 1974 Web. 6 January 2011

“Immigrant Protests, Boycott on Tap for May Day” Bostonist. Bostonist. 1 May 2006. Web 6 January 2011

Bruno, Anthony “James Whitey Bulger” Trutv. Biography. Library. 1 April 1999. Web. 6 January 2011

“Inside the Irish mob” Mafia Today. New England Mafia. 18 October 2008. Web. 6 January 2011

"The Irish Immigration" //Thinkquest.org.// Oracle, n.d. Web. 06 January 2011
 * Jiro**

“Busing of 1794 in Southie” //Americanhistory.abc-clio.com//. abc-clio.com, 2011. Web. 07 January 2011.

“Michael Patrick MacDonald”. //MichaelPatrickMacDonald.com//. n.d. Web. 07 January 2011.

“Raymond Flynn” //IrishMassachusetts.com.// n.d. 1994. Web. 07 January 2011.

"Roxbury" //abc-clio.com.// abc-clio. 1995. Web. 07 January 2011.

 