Ten O'Clock News (1988-01-12)

About this film

South Boston residents hold neighborhood meeting at church to discuss imminent integration of its public housing projects. Crowd jeers the idea. Flynn urges peaceful cooperation. James Kelly opposes. reporter: VaillancourtChristopher Lydon reports that Ray Flynn (Mayor of Boston) attended a community meeting in South Boston to discuss public housing integration. Lydon notes that the audience was hostile in their opposition to the issue. Lydon's report includes footage from the meeting. James Kelly (Boston City Council) speaks out against public housing integration. The crowd cheers. The crowd jeers at Flynn as he makes the case for a fair and equitable housing policy. Lydon notes that Kelly linked the housing integration issue to memories of school desegregation in the 1970s.

Directors & creators

WGBH

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Ray Flynn, James Kelly, Doris Bunty, Christopher Lydon, Leo Tierney, WGBH, South Boston, Roxbury, Boston City Council, public housing integration, school desegregation, school busing in Boston, housing discrimination, civil rights

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