Vocational education -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Center for Continuing Education records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015479246,TRF119719926]
Identifier: Z13-024
Dates:
1989-1993
Citywide Educational Coalition records
Collection
Identifier: M130
Overview
In 1972, Mary Ellen Smith, Hubert Jones, Francis Parkman, Clyde Miller and other citizens, parents, and community activists met to find a way to participate in the process of choosing a superintendent of the Boston Public Schools. The Coalition sought input from large numbers of neighborhood residents and organizations to help develop "Community Agenda for the Boston Public Schools," an outline of questions and issues to use during the interview process. Although unsuccessful in choosing a...
Dates:
1972-2001
La Alianza Hispana records
Collection
Identifier: M055
Overview
La Alianza Hispana was begun in 1968 by Ana Maria Rodríguez, teacher of English as a second language at the Winthrop Elementary School in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Noticing the impoverished conditions of her Latino students, Rodríguez, along with fellow teacher Betsy Tregar, started meeting at Denison House in Roxbury with Latino parents to begin addressing their needs. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Latino community of Boston became very active in the city's civic, social, and...
Dates:
1960-1999; Majority of material found within 1975-1995
Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts records
Collection
Identifier: M139
Overview
The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, (a community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans and other people of color to enter into the economic and social main stream), began its work in 1917 when a group of citizens led by Eugene Kunkle Jones met to discuss ways to help the growing number of black migrants from the South and immigrants from the West Indies find housing and employment in Boston. Once established, it became an affiliate of the National Urban League and...
Dates:
1953-2007; Majority of material found within 1985-2000
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston records
Collection
Identifier: M013
Overview
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Greater Boston was the first YMCA chapter in North America. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800-1859), an American seaman and missionary. He was influenced by the London YMCA and saw the association as an opportunity to provide a "home away from home" for young sailors on shore leave. The Boston chapter promoted evangelical Christianity, the cultivation of Christian sympathy, and the improvement of the spiritual,...
Dates:
1833-2015; Majority of material found within 1851-1980