Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinatown in San Francisco...
...dozen red flags are waving in the air. A young Chinese woman grabs my arm. "The Red Guard," she says, and leads me away. "This is not a good place to be. I knew there would be trouble. All of Chinatown is divided." Divided? "Yes." We walk up the hill toward Grant Avenue. A young Chinese with long hair, George Woo, joins us. The year before, he helped start a radical youth movement called Wah Ching in Chinatown...
...Chinatown is a whore!" he yells. "The Gray Line tours are pimps, and the tourists are customers. This is the only ghetto in the world with tours. Most Chinese live in miserable apartments. The average Chinese over 25 has had 1.7 years of education. We won't take it any more. Now, for the first time, we demonstrate. And we sue the city...
...BORN here in Boston. I was born down on Edinborough St., now it's part of the highway there, in Chinatown it was, Chinatown, we went to the old Quincy School down there, mostly Chinese boys now. Then from there I moved out to West Roxbury, lived out there for a while, my father bought a home out there but he had his business in town, it was quite a job commuting between West Roxbury and Boston, quite a distance you know. He had a wholesale dry goods business in Boston...
...Urban League believes that it has just begun to explore the possibilities of the street academies. Eventually, director Oostdyk hopes to have his all-girl academies sponsored by cosmetics firms, or a Chinatown academy supported by, perhaps, Northwest Orient Airlines. He foresees clusters of street academies surrounding each ghetto public high school, gathering up the dropouts and drawing out their full potential. "The people of the ghetto are very susceptible to change," he says. "You can't stop a bad idea on the streets, but you can't stop a good one either. Here...