Community activists -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Overview These records document community activism around three sites in Boston, Massachusetts: the Southwest Corridor, Tent City, and Melnea Cass Boulevard. For each site, Kruckemeyer played an important role in advocating for neighborhood interests to be taken into account in the development schemes proposed by private, city, state, and federal entities. The records also document the planning, environmental impact studies, and construction of the Southwest Corridor, for which Kruckemeyer served as...

Overview Nancy Caruso is a community activist and co-founder of the North End Waterfront Central Artery Committee. The Committee was established in 1993 to lessen the impact of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project on the North End and Waterfront neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. The Project revitalized the Central Artery by replacing the elevated Interstate 93 with the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel and adding the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge. In addition, Interstate 90 was extended to Logan...

Overview The collection documents the first decade of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), a housing advocacy organization founded in 1969 to oppose Harvard University’s proposed expansion into the Mission Hill neighborhood. RTH was successful in pressuring Harvard to create a relocation housing development instead, and in 1976, RTH was able to plan and develop the mixed-income affordable housing community Mission Park. The collection captures the unfolding of events, and the back and forth...