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St. Margaret's Rally

Description: Anti-busing rally at St. Margaret's School. Interview with clergyman on his objections to busing, which are based on the dangers of transporting the children, not the schools they are assigned to. Louise Day Hicks attends the rally.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/12/1971

State education demonstration

Description: State college students march to State House to protest decreased education funding. James Braude, Barry Crimmins.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1990

TOCN show tape

Description: Advocates for poor protest outside House Ways and Means chair Rep. Thomas Finneran's office against budget cuts; Reps. John McDonough, Stanley Rosenberg. Parcel 18 Ruggles Center in Roxbury to be occupied by Registry of Motor Vehicles; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Gov. William Weld, BRA executive director Stephen Coyle, Rev. Tony Bethel. Architect's scale model of City of Boston development in Coyle's office. Studio interview with Myron Weiner (MIT) and Kishore Mandhyan (BC) on assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and election violence in India. Young Boston children make fanciful, recycled art of objects from industrial surplus bins. Dr. Walter Drew of Institute for Self Active Education encourages this for its free-spirited creativity and joyous expression.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) In State of the City address at JP High Mayor Ray Flynn laments struggling economic health of Boston even as state is booming. 2) Interview with Samuel Tyler of Boston Municipal Research Bureau on city's tenuous finances. 3) Gov. Michael Dukakis signs bill to hasten conversion of abandoned buildings to affordable housing. 4) Reps. William Robinson and David Cohen debate rules reform on late night legislative sessions; Reps. Gregory Sullivan, Lawrence Alexander, Andrew Natsios; Robinson on speaker's platform with George Keverian. 5) Brief on aggressive tactics of anti- abortion protesters, reporting that Joseph Stanton of Citizens for Life denies escalating attacks on clinics, calling protesters “sidewalk counselors.” 6) Interview with Roger Fisher on Geneva arms limitations talks. 7) Felicia Lamport verse on arms talks. Anchors Lydon and Vaillancourt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1985

The Ride

Description: Wheelchair users gather on City Hall plaza to protest The Ride van service with lift because it is ill-equipped and unreliable. James O'Leary, MBTA general manager. Handicapped. Discrimination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1988

Various Boston sports clips

Description: Sports clips from 86/87/88 seasons. Celtics vs. Pistons and Bucks. Bruins vs. Sabres. Red Sox rally on City Hall plaza.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Viewers' opinions of Mapplethorpe

Description: Mapplethorpe exhibit at ICA opens to the public. Free speech demonstrators and police stand out front. Footage of some of the photographs in the exhibit. The opening of the exhibitions. Interviews with patrons waiting to go in on what they expect and why they came, and with patrons coming out, on what they thought of the exhibition.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/01/1990

WAR TAX RESISTANCE

Description: WAR TAX RESISTANCE PROTESTERS AT CITY HALL PLAZA
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/15/1986

Walpole protests landfill

Description: Walpole residents protest in front of State House against siting grit landfill in their town. Meanwhile at board meeting, MWRA votes to approve the site. Sewage disposal.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1989

Welfare workers demand aid

Description: Welfare mothers chant, march and set up soup line on State House steps to protest legislature's lethargy in increasing their aid. They demand turkeys from governor but are served only Catherine Dunham.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1988