Neighborhood Activism; The 1970s and Beyond
Jamaica Plain has a rich and diverse history of neighborhood activism. In the early 1970s plans to extend I-95 from Canton north into downtown Boston, threatened to bring I-95 through the center of Jamaica Plain essentially dividing the community in half. Many elements of the community together with residents of Roxbury and Hyde Park, rallied to stop the building of the highway. Eventually community pressure forced then-Governor Francis W. Sargent to halt the interstate project, but by that time many houses and commercial buildings had already been demolished, leaving a livid scar, a virtual no man's land straight through the center of the community.
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“I do not like forced integration.... I do not like forced anything.... as a youngster I lived in a white neighborhood with a white neighbor next door. We would go to them, they would go to us. If they had anything, we had it. We lived just like one. We didn’t think about no integration.”
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