Word: gravesend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just a few months later, in New York, three Black transit workers stopped their car in the white neighborhood of Gravesend to get a midnight snack on the way home from work. A gang of white men attacked them; Dennis Dixon fled, and Donald Cooper escaped with the help of a piece of pipe. Their friend and co-worker, William Turks, whose arm was in a cast, was not so lucky. The whites dragged him from the car, and killed him with what was officially described as "overlapping blows to the head by a blunt object like a stick...