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...charges of racial bias stem from Gimbel's alleged refusal to live up to an agreement made with Harlem Fight Back to institute an on-the-job training program for black and Puerto Rican workers at the construction site of a new Gimbels store located at 86th Street and Lexington Ave, in New York City...
Grinspoon also mentions the role of racism in the history of marihuana repression in this country. Punitive legislation was enacted in the 1930s when most users were black, Mexican and Puerto Rican, and when marihuana use was publicly identified most strongly with black jazz musicians...
...According to a friend of the girl, she was walking alone up Garden St. towards the Radcliffe Quad when a car pulled up and two youths who appeared to be Puerto Rican forced her into their car at knifepoint...
...weeks ago, a traumatic P.T.A. meeting ensued. Dr. Hofer, who once staged drug seminars at Dalton, was more or less accused of condoning pot for students. His defenders accused Barr of keeping black and Puerto Rican students out of the school. When Barr wandered in, his mawkish remarks about his uncertain future at the school drew catcalls ("Where'd you leave Checkers?"). One of his defenders received a Nazi salute. The combatants almost reeled back to their chauffeured limousines double-parked outside the school...
...shot at but unharmed as he stepped from the rotunda to the Capitol portico. In 1915, the old Supreme Court Chamber in the Senate Wing of the Capitol and a reception room were bombed by a college professor angered over U.S. munitions sales to Britain. In 1954, Puerto Rican Nationalists opened fire from a House gallery, wounding five Congressmen on the floor below...