Description: INADEQUATE OFFICES, COURTROOMS, LOCK-UP IN DORCHESTER DISTRICT COURT, part 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/18/1987
Description: DORCHESTER AVENUE, ASHMONT, SAVIN HILL, STREETS, PEDESTRIANS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/06/1983
Description: MICHAEL DUKAKIS ADDRESSING CONCERNS OF DORCHESTER RESIDENTS ON STATE/LOCAL ISSUES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1983
Description: Phoenix reporter says Darryl Whiting wants to be boss of Boston gangs, and that his Dorchester recreation club is a center for drug dealing. Whiting denies it.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/16/1990
Description: Marcus Jones reports that the Boston School Department has called the Lee Elementary School a model of a successfully integrated elementary school. Jones notes that test scores are improving at the school. He adds that there is a good relationship between school faculty and parents. Jones reviews the racial breakdown of the student population. Jones interviews Arthur Foster (Acting Principal, Lee School) and Jack Flynn (Lee School official) about the success at the school. Jones' report includes footage of students in racially integrated classrooms at the school. Jones interviews students and teachers at the school about school desegregation. Jones reports that the US Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that school integration is complete in Boston. He adds that the Lee School is an exception and that some schools have not been successfully integrated. This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following item: David Boeri reports on integration at the Marshall Elementary School Marshall Elementary School is still segregated
1:00:06: Visual: Footage of a white teacher doing a lesson with a racially integrated class at the Joseph Lee School in Dorchester. Shots of individual students in the classroom. Marcus Jones reports that the Boston School Department calls the Lee School a "model" of how school desegregation should work. Jones notes that the US Circuit Court of Appeals has declared yesterday that school integration is complete in Boston. Jones notes that the population of the Lee School is 60% African American, 28% white and 12% other minorities. V: Shots of an African American female student; of a white male student; of an African American male student; of a white teacher at the chalkboard. Footage of Jones asking a white male student if he knows what desegregation is. The student says no. Footage of an African American female student saying she does not really know why some students are bused in from other parts of the city. Footage of Arthur Foster (Acting Principal, Joseph Lee School) saying that the students are learning and that the students get along well. Footage of a white teacher teaching to a racially integrated class. Jones reports that test scores are improving at the school; that there is a good relationship between the faculty and parents; that white parents are eager to send their children to the Lee School. V: Footage of a white male student saying that he likes the school; that there are students of all races in the school. Footage of Jack Flynn (Lee School official) saying that white parents are willing to have their children bused to the Lee School. Jones notes that school officials hope that yesterday's court decision will not bring changes for the school. V: Footage of a white female teacher saying that she hopes the city has matured; that she hopes the city can move beyond the court order. Footage of Flynn saying that the Lee School is an exception; that the School Department needs to make desegregation work better across the city. Jones notes that the court decided that the Boston Public Schools were as desegrated as possible; that some schools are more segregated now than they were before the court order. V: Shots of a classroom at the Lee School.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1987
Description: Ray Flynn interview on opening Division of Employment Security office in Uphams Corner. DES exterior with signs: Job Matching, Job Insurance. Uphams Corner environs from moving car in rain. jobs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/15/1984
Description: some of those arrested yesterday are arraigned at Dorchester District Court
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 03/11/1970
Description: Playground sewerage
Collection: WHDH
Description: Sil B&W 5/14/67 A month long cleanup program ended with an international community festival this after- noon. Planned in December by Mrs Mary Persons a kindergarten teacher at the Rox- bury Community school, the may-day mothers day community festival slauted children the world over. Mothers made costumes, paper flowers and even provided the refreshments
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 05/14/1967
Description: In Dorchester, a house which has been torn in half by demolition crewa is still being called home by one family. Roger Goodrich reports Sil Col 5/13/67
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 05/13/1967