Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with widespread socio-economic and ethnic diversity, some residents said they felt no observable racial tensions in the district during the turbulent 1960s...
Cambridge resident Rita Corkery, who has lived in the district since 1954 and was a long-time liaison between Harvard and the city, said the area weathered the struggle for civil rights with little wear and tear...
Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, who "flirted" with the idea of running for the seat in 1986, remembers a different district...
Disputes over curriculum in the area's already progressive school systems created division within the district during the civil rights...
Still, in the late 1960s, as a glut of federal money began pouring in to build low-income housing, the district dealt with the tensions of the civil rights era better than most others...