Word: perdigao
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...teachers, Garrity's patience was at an end. He stripped the all-white School Committee of its control over "Southie," the city's racial trouble spot, and placed the school in federal receivership. He also ordered Southie Headmaster William Reid, its other administrators and Football Coach Arthur Perdigao transferred to some other school...
...white student kicked him; another black testified that a white student came to school on crutches, claiming that they were his new "nigger beaters." A third charged that a white student picked up a chair and bashed a black over the head with it. Others said that Football Coach Perdigao told white players to "get" blacks trying out for the team; Perdigao denied it. Headmaster Reid, however, admitted that most of the charges were "basically honest...