Racial tensions soared as the Spencers, a middle-class black family moved into Rosedale, a Queens white working-class neighborhood. A human study of the fear, hatred and courage generated as the “have-nots” of our society battle for a tiny piece of the “good life”.
Produced by Richard Kotuk
Broadcast date: January 18, 1976
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Long settled working class Irish and Jews felt that their neighborhood is “dying” when welfare African Americans and Puerto Ricans begin to move in.
Produced and reported by Richard Kotuk
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