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On 1/16/13 11:29 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:49:38 -0500, JustWait
wrote:

When I was little, the ghettos were not strictly black and hispanic...
1964 changed that..

If you are talking about the 50, we thought ghettos were in Nazi
Germany, Jews lived in them and it made Anacostia look like Beverly
Hills.

The use of the term to describe US cities was promoted in the 60s. The
first time I really started hearing it in common use was in reference
to "ghetto uprisings" in 68 where leaders were trying to say they were
like the Jews in Warsaw.

I think the first time I heard the term "ghetto" in relation to a
community in the United States was in the mid 1950's, in regard to
Chelsea, Massachusetts. It was an industrial employment center in those
days, and there was plenty of inexpensive housing right in the area. I
had a great aunt and uncle who lived there for decades, until they moved
out to Revere. Most of my relatives lived in the Greater Boston area, in
Boston itself and in Chelsea, Salem, Lynn and Swampscott. I took a lot
of train trips on the NHRR to Back Bay Station.