Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women, one from the organizing committee, the other from a group marching, bicker over whether to go up Commonwealth Avenue or Boylston Street, A police permit has been issued for Commonwealth, a pleasant tree-shaded avenue lined with grimy brick apartments, but not for Boylston,' which cuts through one of Boston's more affluent shopping districts. Later the Globe said that shopkeepers had complained to the Mayor that the march would disrupt their business. The two ladies, one short with short brown hair, the other taller in a long brown coat and with an ugly motley-skinned face, engage...
WINDING UP Park Drive, the march crosses the Fens and heads into downtown Boston via Boylston Street. The leafleteers scour the sidewalks and pizza parlors, distributing their literature. A little blond boy of about four chants in his mother's arms, "Who's got the money? Who makes the rules? Kids can't learn in racist schools." Suddenly the march halts. It creeps forward. There is a spasmodic jerk back. A spray of placards spumes to the pavement. All is quiet. Then it erupts...
Oblivious to the sound truck's directive, "Stay calm. Stay quiet..." a disjointed mass of bodies thrashes into the intersection of Mass Ave and Boylston Street. A barrage of over a hundred armed, billy-clubbed, helmeted riot police blocks their path. At their center are seven mounted police. Behind them a fleet of squad cars and paddy wagons jams Boylston Street...
...front eventually holds back. Boylston Street is not worth a shattered skull. Owens, taking advantage of the calm, offers to go alone to be arrested. He cannot, "in good faith," let others, for whom he feels a responsibility, be arrested or injured. As he talks, two black physicians attend a young man slumped on a car's hood on the far corner. Peter Pogorski is calm and glum and will be taken to the hospital for X-rays and stitches...
...they been on Boylston Street their opinion would not have been much different. To march down Boylston would surely be a symbolic victory, but the civil rights movement had plenty of those and people still stone black children. "We shall overcome..." is a beautiful song, but the issue is not spiritual it is nuts and bolts. Do not stone the buses. Build better schools. People do not have to like each other, a little respect is all that is needed. But nobody wants to assume that load, so the brunt of it falls on the schoolchildren. Ant they...