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...media helped transform certain groups of brutal outlaws—namely, ethnic Irish and Italian hoods that operated within highly structured criminal syndicates—into pop culture icons. For many impoverished European immigrants, the rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger-like tales of powerful mobsters such as Big Jim Colosimo and the infamous Al Capone seemed to epitomize the American Dream. As historian David Ruth has written: “The central theme of the Capone narrative was an individual’s escape from obscurity to wealth, power, and fame...
...project has inauspicious beginnings. It suffered at first, form the predictable conflicts, the bruised egos, the infighting that results when different programs, different outlooks combine. More dramatically, three months before the new building was completed. In April 1980, 17 year-old Anthony Colosimo, a white East Cambridge student, was stabbed to death in a fight with three Blacks. "It was just one of those things that happened. Anthony challenged this guy to fight, the guy brought along two friends, and when the going got rough, one of them pulled a knife," a classmate now recalls. But at the time...
...none expected what happened January 7. That Monday, shortly after noon, a black student fatally stabbed a white youth--Anthony Colosimo of East Cambridge--in an unfinished wing of the new high school a block from Harvard Yard...
Monday night, at a community center a few blocks from Colosimo's family home in a mostly white neighborhood, angry residents screamed at school officials. Meanwhile, city authorities manned a crisis center in City Hall all night...
Feelings ran understandably high after Anthony Colosimo and William Graham were stabbed in a closed-off wing of Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School, but the peace was kept. Beyond that, city residents, reacted constructively--gathering in many forums to discuss openly the problems, including the racial tensions, that trouble the city...