The fierce heat of the summer of 1977 reopened the battle. Black children from Columbia Point had been forced to play in the streets under fire hydrants to stay cool.

After several children were accidentally hit by passing cars, Blacks and Puerto Rican parents decided to use the beach.

Two days later, a screaming mob of 150 whites attacked, hurling rocks and bottles.

Cops pushed the Blacks and Puerto Ricans off the beach but didn’t arrest any whites.

But the Columbia Point residents weren’t frightened off. They returned later in the week. On July 28 and 29 several hundred whites, screaming, "Get the niggers of the beach," confronted a group of about forty Blacks.

This time the cops surrounded the whites. Twenty six whites were arrested.

The turnabout in the attitude of the cops and city administration was no accident, coming only weeks after the social explosion during the blackout in New York City.  
 
August 11, 1952
There has been a tide of bitter anti-American feeling running for some years now throughout the world. This has been almost completely ignored by the news services and the big dailies.

But recently a change in editorial attitude is to be noted. The immediate reason for this is the recent attack on the floor of Iran’s Parliament, demanding the ouster of all Americans, particularly of the U.S. military mission.

In a July 30 editorial entitled "Why are we hated?" the N.Y. World-Telegram & Sun, chief paper of the Scripps-Howard chain, takes note of this outburst in Iran and then adds:

"It is time we were asking ourselves why so many people hate us. While Iran is an extreme case, anti-American feeling is gaining ground in most parts of the world. It is finding increasing expression in Britain and Western Europe, as well as in the so-called backward countries."  
 
 
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