Urban Planning

Muriel and Otto Snowden promoted the Washington Park Urban Renewal Area (WPURA) to television viewers in an all-out effort to encourage citizen participation.

The Work and Study Project involved youth in the rehabilitation of Upper Roxbury. In its first year (1964), the program was co-sponsored by Freedom House, BRA, and the American Friends Service Committee, and it focused on painting houses on Dale St.

In subsequent years, a collaborative developed among Freedom House, BRA and Northeastern University in which high school and college students painted houses and tutored school children.

Unidentified members of the Roxbury Youth Council Clean-up Campaign crew on a lot.

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Unidentified members of the Roxbury Youth Council Clean-up Campaign crew on a lot.
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Unidentified members of the Roxbury Youth Council clean-up campaign crew working on a lot.
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1953
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Project partially funded by The Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Photograph contributed to Northeastern University by Freedom House
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Several college students work on painting a large house as part of Freedom House's Roxbury Work Study Project.

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Several college students work on painting a large house as part of Freedom House's Roxbury Work Study Project.
Three people in the photo are Tellis Lawson (at the top of a ladder, facing the camera), "Chip" Draper (in the white shirt on a ladder), and Bob Smith from the Boston Redevelopment Authority The Roxbury Work Study Project involved a group of Commonwealth Service Corpsmen, made up of high school and college students, who painted houses in the Washington Park Urban Renewal Area during the summers of 1965-1968.
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1965
Project partially funded by The Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Photograph contributed to Northeastern University by Freedom House
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A student in the Roxbury Work Study Project Tutorial raises his hand for Cheryl Evans.

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The Roxbury Work Study Project Tutorial helped students in grades 1-6 from areas 7 and 8 of the Washington Park Urban Renewal Area during the summer of 1965.
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Project partially funded by The Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Photograph contributed to Northeastern University by Freedom House
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Urban renewal -- 1960-1970
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Lewis Jr. High School students submitted over 200 essays in a contest sponsored by the CURAC Education Committee. The committee provided tours of Washington Park and information about urban renewal to elementary and high school children. This essay, "Urban Renewal in Roxbury," written by eighth-grader Brenda Bugg, won first prize.