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====Events of the 1980s and 1990s==== Immigrants from the [[Dominican Republic]] and migrants from [[Puerto Rico]] began arriving in Lawrence in significant numbers in the late 1960s, attracted by cheap housing and a history of tolerance toward immigrants. In 1984, tensions between remaining working-class whites and increasing numbers of Hispanic youth flared into a riot, centered at the intersection of Haverhill Street and Oxford Street, where several buildings were destroyed by [[Molotov cocktail]]s and over 300 people were arrested.<ref>{{Cite news| title = Crackdown by police cools Lawrence riots| newspaper = [[Spokane Chronicle]]| location = Spokane, Washington| page = 4| date = August 11, 1984| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M8USAAAAIBAJ&pg=5550,2277710&dq=lawrence+riots+1984&hl=en| access-date = 4 November 2009}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title = Two Nights of Rioting Bring a Curfew to Lawrence Mass.| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]| page = 4| date = August 10, 1984| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/11/us/two-nights-of-rioting-bring-a-curfew-to-lawrence-mass.html| access-date = 23 May 2014 }}</ref> Lawrence saw further setbacks during the recession of the early 1990s as a wave of arson plagued the city. Over 200 buildings were set alight in eighteen months in 1991β1992, many of them abandoned residences and industrial sites.<ref>{{Cite news| last = McGhee| first = Neil| title = Arson epidemic continues in Massachusetts town| newspaper = National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management| publisher = The National Underwriter Company| date = August 24, 1992| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-12533408.html| access-date = 4 November 2009}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The [[Malden Mills]] factory burned down on December 11, 1995. CEO Aaron Feuerstein decided to continue paying the salaries of all the now unemployed workers while the factory was being rebuilt.<ref>60 Minutes: The Mensch Of Malden Mills</ref>
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