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Blue Hill Avenue

Description: Ride along Blue Hill Avenue. Decrepit, boarded up and abandoned storefronts. Many defunct businesses. Vacant lot. Zion Apostolic and Immanuel Pentecostal Churches. Warren Street intersection. Bridge Free Medical Van. Houses on Supple Road. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. Sign for the Mayor's Office of Housing. Street sweeping vehicle. Mayor Kevin White walks with Julian Bond through neighborhood with press entourage. White answers questions about his candidacy and housing policy decisions as mayor especially involving the Boston Housing Authority, and says urban revitalization will come to reality within 3-5 years but need more federal $$. White and Bond meet local business owners and community members.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1979

Digital Crosstown plant

Description: Digital Equipment Corp. Crosstown Industrial Park. Construction site of the Roxbury facility. Project sign lists John B. Cruz as contractor, Stull Associates as architect, showing minority developer involvement. Black construction workers. Building in progress. Huge mounds of excavated dirt, concrete blocks stacked up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1979

Roxbury murder hotline

Description: Murder hotline established at Roxbury YMCA to gather tips to capture killer(s) of nine black women. Interview with Sgt. Murphy about community reaction. Rotary dial telephone.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1979

Roxbury street scenes

Description: Roxbury street scenes. Black pedestrians. Grove Hall bus. Squeal of orange line elevated trolley on overhead tracks. People board bus. Nubian Notion on Dudley Street. Traffic, many taxis pass through intersection. District 2 Boston police station. Cars on Columbia Road. Two UPI B+W stills of murder scene on Fellows Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1979