Civil Rights Leaders
A boulevard in Roxbury is named after this civil rights leader
Who is Malcom X
A tern describing a practice in which banks drew maps sectioning off areas based on their racial make up. These sections ultimately determined where homeowners could and could not receive loans/credit.
What is Redlining
Arguably Boston's most recognizable street, there was a movie named after it in 2001 starring Allen Payne.
What is Blue Hill Avenue
An RnB group hailing from the Orchard Park housing projects in Roxbury.
Who is New Edition
This Boston neighborhood, one of the city’s oldest immigrant gateways near the waterfront, saw its population shift from Irish immigrants in the 1800s to Russian and Polish Jews and then to Italians. By 1920, Italians and their children made up about 90% of the population, giving it the nickname “Little Italy.”
What is the North End
She was named "The First Lady of Roxbury" and has an avenue named after her very close to here
Who is Melnea Cass
The last baseball organization to integrate their baseball team.
Who is the Red Sox
The famous Chinese food spot in what was formerly Dudley Station (now called Nubian Station).
What is Yummy Yummy (Yum Yums)
This magazine was founded in 1988 by Harvard University students Jonathan Shecter and David Mays, originating in Boston before moving to New York City in 1990. Originally a newsletter, it grew into a prominent hip-hop publication known for its influential "mic" rating system.
What is The Source
By 1990, about one-third of Boston’s population from this country lived in Dorchester’s Fields Corner neighborhood, after rising housing costs pushed many families out of Chinatown and Allston-Brighton.
What is Vietnam
The Massachussetts born Sociologist who founded the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
A term that refers to what happened in 1974 when Boston Public school were under court control to desegregate schools, And students were sent on buses to schools in other districts.
What is Bussing
The beloved hosts of their self-titled morning show on JAM'N 94.5 (WJMN), running from October 2001 until the end of 2012. They had memorable segments such as the "Jam Scams" prank calls.
Who is Ramiro & Pebbles
This Boston-founded conservatory, established in 1945 by Lawrence Berk, is one of the world’s leading schools for jazz and contemporary music.
What is the Berklee College of Music
A lively street festival held before sunrise, marking the official start of Caribbean Carnival. It began as a celebration of freedom after emancipation. Originating in Trinidad & Tobago, it features soca and steelpan music, with participants covering themselves in paint, mud, and oil.
What is J'ouvert
In 1949 this couple opened the Freedom House, a community center in Roxbury for the purposes of improving the lives of black middle class families in Boston through community development.
Who is Muriel and Edward Snowden
Orginated in 1965 when two African-American parents, Ellen Jackson and Elizabeth Johnson, lead “Operation Exodus”, in which 400 Roxbury students enroll in mostly white schools in Boston neighborhoods with surplus capacity.
What is METCO
While causing one of America's deadliest and strangest floods in 1919, our city's nick name "Beantown" comes from our settlers iconic love for baked beans cooked in this ingredient.
What is Molasses
This Boston born African-American musician, songwriter, and record producer is best known for his production work for boy bands New Edition and New Kids on the Block.
Who is Maurice Starr
This immigrant population originally settled in New Bedford and other surrounding areas in the early 1900s, primarily working in the Whaling industry. They began migrating to the city of Boston after 1975, mainly in the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods.
Who are Cape Verdeans
One of the most famous abolitionist and civil rights activists, who delivered his famous speech renouncing the United States' annexation of Texas from Mexico in Boston's Faneuil Hall on May 31st, 1849. He also gave speeches at the African Meeting House and Tremont Temple numerous times.
Who is Frederick Douglass
A massive, 16-year ($14+ billion) infrastructure project in Boston, completed in 2007, that replaced a congested 6-lane elevated highway (formerly the Central Artery) with a 3.5-mile underground tunnel system (I-93) and extended I-90 to Logan Airport via the Ted Williams Tunnel.
What is The Big Dig
What is Roxbury
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the city's Mission Hill neighborhood. She began singing at Grant AME Church in Roxbury and attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School. Boston hosts an annual, free Disco Party on City Hall Plaza in her honor.
Who is Donna Summer
Since the late 1950s, immigrants from this country have been a key part of Boston’s workforce. By the early 21st century, nursing jobs employed about half of all women of this descent in the Boston area, while many men worked in fields like food service, education, and transportation particularly taxi driving.
What is Haiti