In 1976, the predominantly Italian, Irish, and Jewish community of Rosedale, Queens began to experience their first wave of black integration. A local news station documented their response.

The Spencers, a black family, had just purchased a six-room home in the well to do neighborhood. Unfortunately, once the residents learned about the ethnicity of their new neighbors, “someone” set the house on fire before they could move in. They moved anyway.

Can we, for a minute, just talk about the resilence of our people?!! Because how?

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