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Ten O'Clock News (1988-06-16)
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South Boston residents express their opinions on the imminence of black tenants being placed in formerly all-white public housing projects in their neighborhood. Integration. Racial prejudice. reporter: Vaillancourt Meg Vaillancourt reports that South Boston residents are opposed to the city's plans to integrate public housing projects. Vaillancourt notes that residents were hostile to Ray Flynn (Mayor of Boston) when he attended a community meeting in South Boston to discuss plans for integration. Vaillancourt's report includes footage of Flynn and Doris Bunte (Boston Housing Authority) at the community meeting. The audience jeers at Flynn. Vaillancourt notes that South Boston residents have not changed their attitudes in the face of evidence that the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) practices discrimination against African American tenants of public housing. Vaillancourt interviews South Boston public housing residents about public housing integration. Many residents are opposed to integration. Some fear that the quality of life in the projects will decline after the housing projects are integrated. Others say that racial violence will be a result of integration. A few residents ar…
Directors & creators
WGBH
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Ten O'Clock News, WGBH, Ray Flynn, Doris Bunte, Meg Vaillancourt, Boston Housing Authority, South Boston, Boston public housing integration, racial discrimination, housing desegregation, Boston busing crisis, racial conflict, urban housing
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