Black 1960’s Italian American Radicals vs. Black Panthers Joe Columbo formed the Italian American Civil Rights' League which teamed up with Meir Kahane's JDL against black radicals. However, Meir Kahane put some distance between himself as Michael Imperiale who he saw as a racist. Michael Imperiale was the founder of the "North Ward First Aid Squad"
Radical Politics 1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots The Stonewall Rebellion in NYC signalled the start of the gay pride movement, which has continued its progressive and liberation movement until this day. Here we had oppressive Irish (as seen through the phrase "paddy-wagon") and Italian Catholic lower-middle class cops facing down a rebellion of an ethnic/
Radical Politics 1968 Rioting Police vs. Student Protestors Irish-American Mayor Daley was quite a bigot, referring to Senator Abraham Ribicoff as a "Jew Sonovabitch." Senator Abraham Ribicoff was the Senator who at the Chicago Democratic Convention said Daley's police forces were using "Gestapo tactics." So here the conflict is between upper-middle class and lower-middle
