Roxbury Multi-Service Center
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Frieda Garcia papers
Collection
Identifier: M222
Abstract
Frieda Garcia is a community activist and leader who has worked primarily in Boston's South End and Roxbury neighborhoods since the mid 1960s, when she first settled in Boston. She initially found work under Hubie Jones, who became a mentor, at the Roxbury Multi-Service Center. A few years later, in 1969, Jones urged her to become a part of a new organization that was forming to meet the needs of Boston's growing Hispanic community. Garcia became the first director of the resulting...
Dates:
1886-2022; Majority of material found within 1963-2014
Roxbury Multi-Service Center records
Collection
Identifier: M109
Overview
RMSC is a social service agency modeled after the 19th century settlement house where all client services were located under one roof. It began as a three-year demonstration project in 1964 to provide services to the Roxbury and North Dorchester neighborhoods of Boston. From its inception, the mission of RMSC has been to offer programs and services designed to empower the residents of Roxbury and North Dorchester to become economically and socially self-sufficient. RMSC was originally funded...
Dates:
1965-2002
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Academic achievement -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- African American neighborhoods -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- African American youth -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Busing for school integration -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Community development -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Community mental health services -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Community organization -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Crime prevention -- Citizen participation 1
- Crime prevention -- Youth participation 1
- Crisis intervention (Mental health services) -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Dominican Americans -- Massachusetts 1
- Education, Bilingual 1
- Education, bilingual -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Emergency housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Gang prevention -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Hispanic American women 1
- Hispanic Americans 1
- Hispanic Americans -- Massachusetts 1
- Hispanic Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Housing rehabilitation -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Legal assistance to the poor -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Multiculturalism 1
- Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Roxbury (Mass.) -- Social Conditions 1
- Sex instruction -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Social service -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Social work administration--Massachusetts 1
- South End (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Urban beautification -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Urban homesteading -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Youth development -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1 + ∧ less
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