November 1977
Racial violence / housingBook sources
Attacks force a Hispanic family from a Dorchester home
Savin Hill, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts; a Hispanic household
Zinn reports that repeated stonings and broken windows drove a Hispanic family from its Savin Hill home in November 1977. He cites the Boston Globe. The account illustrates violence used to maintain residential exclusion outside the Jim Crow South.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The supplied print chapter identifies the family as Hispanic, correcting the earlier imported description as Black. The original Globe report has not yet been located; the family’s names, precise dates and full circumstances remain unverified.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 17, pp. 466–467; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified