Some notes on Harold Saltzman's account of the destruction of Franklin K. Lane High School in Woodhaven-Cyprus Hill-Richmond Hill on the Brooklyn-Queens border. It was one of the schools in the East New York district (the largest in the city) and the first integrated academic high schools. (51, 85)- ...the seeds for a new generation of racism were being sown. But members of this new generation would have substance enforcing their bigotry, quite different from the know-nothing prejudice of their elders. (48)
- Mutual hostility grew as impoverished blacks and subsistence whites scratched and clawed at each other; the whites struggling to hold onton the little piece they had carved out for themselves...(55)
- While there was a rather complete population change in the core of East New York during the 1960s, the, the immediate neighborhoods of Cypress Hill and Woodhaven remained exclusively white. (88)
- (Woodhaven) parents had developed real prejudices, a reaction which was in direct contradiction to the liberal traditions of their Jewish heritage (94)
- Community associations=white backlash
- ...Cypress Hill was the spawning ground for Vito Battista... (153)
To look up:
- Frank Siracusa
- Joseph Galliani- Cypress Hill
- State Senator John Santucci
