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Jamaica Plain, Mass, 02130
Oct. 5, 1974
Judge Arthur Garrity
Federal Court House
Boston, Mass
Dear Judge,
I partially agree with the people in South Boston about not wanting the colored in their schools because I have seen first hand how their (the blacks) presence changed the face of Roxbury. I am not talking about all of Roxbury, since I don’t know it first-hand but about Mission Hill, section of Roxbnury which I know very well since I lived on Mission Hill for eighteen years and in the project behind Mission Church for the next ten. I never saw or heard before what I did once the colored people moved in. I myself was held up and assaulted by them four times, the first of which required hospitalization. I begged my mother to move out of that section after this first incident but she was so attached to Mission Church that she refused. (Maybe I was more attached because Mission Grammar and High School had helped an awful lot in bringing me up but I know I had the character to face the present situation regardless of how much it meant to me) It got increasingly worse until finally a lot of businesses moved out and Whiting Milk Co. refused to let their men deliver on Mission Hill because their men were continually assaulted and robbed. So I can understand South Boston’s plight now. They (the colored people) made a hell-hole of Mission Hill so let them stay there. It was fine before they came.