Dirty Old Boston - Tent City....In 1968 hundreds of demonstrators occupied a parking lot in Boston's South End. Houses on the lot had recently been demolished, their occupants displaced. To protest this
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Tent City, once a triumph of community activism, is now home to strife over maintenance and security - The Boston Globe
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Everyone wants the problem at 'Mass. and Cass' to go away. But no one wants the people. - The Boston Globe
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Boston honors Mel King, a champion of civil rights who was all 'about bringing people together' - masslive.com
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