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...renewal foes from Charlestown and Roxbury, along with members of Students for a Democratic Society, and representatives of the John Birch society, had gathered to rally the cause of the North Harvard residents. Shortly after Boston city counsilor Katherine Craven, a colorful and outspoken renewal critic heard of the situation and rushed to the scene...
...stream of projects for South End, Charlestown, South Cove, Waterfront, Downtown, etc. are programmed, promising the same superb design and neighborhood cooperation that are becoming visible in Government Center and Washington Park today. These planned projects may never rise. The tender shoots of the New Boston grow as much from external climate as internal genes. Lately hot gases have been blowing across the river from Charlestown and Cambridge onto Boston's tender urban renewal garden. William Weismantel Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Urban Planner (part-time) with Boston Redevelopment Authority
Bleached-Out. At the gloomy state prison in Charlestown, Malcolm copied a dictionary from A to Z. He wanted to improve his vocabulary, and he did. He was to become a spellbinding speaker...
...page letter from jail (Lewis quotes it in full) to Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, who was appointed to represent him before the Supreme Court, is an autobiographic gem that ranks with the famous letter that Nicola Sacco wrote from his death cell in Boston's Charlestown jail...
...Charlestown, the Cattons detect "a faint but undeniable whiff of decay" under the city's genteel tradition." Brierfield, Davis's estate, is said to have been in the Scarlett O'Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party...