Letter to Congressman John Joseph Moakley from the residents of the Columbia Point Housing Project

Letter to Congressman John Joseph Moakley from the residents of the Columbia Point Housing Project

Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
Moakley, John Joseph, 1927-2001
Sargent, Francis W., 1915-1998

Two representatives of the Columbia Point Health Association at the Columbia Point Housing Project in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood originally sent this letter to Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent, with a telegram copy (shown here) sent to “Senator Joseph Moakley” [sic]. In their letter, they ask Governor Sargent to call upon Judge Garrity to bring in federal marshals to help black children from the Dorchester neighborhood get to school in South Boston safely. They describe frequent “assaults” upon these children and their families in South Boston and criticize the Boston Police Department and Boston Mayor Kevin White for “obvious inability and lack of commitment” in dealing with the issue.

Smith-Benjamin, Barbara, and Haskins, Dorothy E.

Congressman John Joseph Moakley Papers, 1926-2001
(MS100)
Series 04 District Issues, Box 5 Folder 52

John Joseph Moakley Archive & Institute at Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.

September 16, 1974

Kintz, Laura

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