Overview
On 9 November 2006, Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun met with members of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Massachusetts at the People's Baptist Church (830 Tremont Street, Boston) to discuss possible collaborations between Northeastern and Lower Roxbury clergy. During the meeting, Reverend Michael E. Haynes suggested the University create a history of the African American community in Lower Roxbury. As a result, President Aoun appointed Joseph D. Warren, at that time Special Assistant to the Director of Government Relations and Community Affairs, to oversee the Lower Roxbury Black History Project. Warren appointed an advisory board consisting of Rev. Michael E. Haynes, formerly of Roxbury's Twelfth Baptist Church, Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing, Northeastern University Archivist Joan D. Krizack, and Northeastern University history professors William M. Fowler Jr., Gerald H. Herman, Robert L. Hall, and Northeastern Vice President for Public Affairs Robert P. Gittens. In November 2007, Warren hired Lolita Parker Jr., a photographer and documentary film researcher, to collect oral histories and artifacts documenting the community's rich history. From 2007-2009 with the assistance of her son, London Parker-McWhorter, Parker spoke with over 40 residents of Roxbury.
Dates
- Creation: 2007-2009
Creator
- Parker, Lolita, Jr. (Person)
Language of Materials
Entirely in English.
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is unrestricted.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use:
Some copyright restrictions may apply.
Extent
758.28 Gigabytes
1.05 cubic feet (4 containers, 1 flat file folder)
System of Arrangement:
Organized into 2 series: Series 1. Interviewees and 2. Project Records
Physical Location
56/4
Bibliography
- Larcoque, Marc. "Northeastern documents Lower Roxbury history." Huntington News, February 23, 2008. http://www.huntington-news.com/2.6303/northeastern-documents-lower-roxbury-history-1.682338 (accessed February 5, 2010).
- "Telling stories, preserving history." Northeastern Voice, January 30, 200. http://www.northeastern.edu/voice/evoice/080130/article2.html (accessed February 5, 2010).
Subject
- Abdul Qaabid, Desamou Musa (Person)
- Anderson, Edna Marshall (Person)
- Barnes, Harry (Person)
- Bennett, William M. (Person)
- Binns, Del Brook (Person)
- Blake, Anna Lambert (Person)
- Brown, Richard G. (Person)
- Bruce, Constance (Person)
- Coar-Gueye, Paula D. Firmin (Person)
- Corbin, Lillian (Person)
- Cromwell, Adelaide (Person)
- Dawson, Barbara Lomax (Person)
- Dawson, Charles (Person)
- Dixon, Loretta (Person)
- Evans, Derrick C. (Person)
- Fox, Gloria (Person)
- Fredricks, Katherine Watson (Person)
- Goode, Matthew E. (Person)
- Green, Randy (Person)
- Guscott, Cecil (Person)
- Guscott, Kenneth (Person)
- Hall, Winifred Irish (Person)
- Harris, Alfreda (Person)
- Haynes, Michael E. (Person)
- Hunter, David F. (Person)
- Hunter, Stephen (Person)
- Jackson, Gretchen Lucinda Flippin (Person)
- Jones, Clarence (Person)
- Lowell, Margaret Reed Jones (Person)
- Mayo, Arthur W. (Person)
- McDivett, Jack (Person)
- Moore, Chauncy (Person)
- Nathan, Osceola Brown (Person)
- Nedd, Richard (Person)
- Nunally, Reginald (Person)
- Parks, Paul (Person)
- Parker, Lolita, Jr. (Person)
- Parker-McWorter, London (Person)
- Richardson, Martin Daniel, Jr. (Person)
- Rushing, Byron (Person)
- Sanford, Harvey F. (Person)
- Saunders, Willis D., Jr. (Person)
- Scott, James M. (Person)
- Shaw, Sarah-Ann (Person)
- Silcott, James (Person)
- Sisco, Tomasina Marshall (Person)
- Small, Martha Roberts (Person)
- Stanley, Joyce (Person)
- Thomas, Charles and Pauline (Person)
- Valentine, Lillie B. (Person)
- Warren, Joseph David, 1938- (Person)
- White, Gilbert (Person)
Topical
- African American neighborhoods -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- African American youth -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- African Americans -- Economic conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
- Civil rights -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Community development, Urban -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Oral History
- Title
- Finding aid for the Lower Roxbury Black History Project Records
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Sarah Murray, Hanna Clutterbuck, and Michelle Romero
- Date
- March 2010
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Repository