Word: govan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joyous scene last night because we had our community meeting place back and we weren't living under the gun any more," Sylvia Govan, spokesman for the Columbia Point People's Center, said yesterday...
...Govan denied that any roadblocks were ever set up to keep whites out of the area. "Whites have come to work here at the People's Center, as the BHA [Boston Housing Authority] Office and at the Uniform Factory down the street [Mt. Vernon] the whole time, even when the cops said they were kept out of the area," she said...
...residents at last night's meeting said they feared that the police incursion into Columbia Point may have reversed the progress that the community has made in reducing the previously high crime rate. "Ever since the cops came in, vandalism has returned and there is lots of internal fighting," Govan said...
Residents criticized the nature of the police intervention, Govan said, and they used words like "provocative" and "Gestapo" to describe the action...
...blacks' anger has now been directed not only at the police--the traditional target--but at whites in general. Govan said Columbia Point residents feel "overwhelmed." Whites may call the black reaction "irrational" but the only whites who are ever seen or discussed are the police or the students and protestors...