Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rare display of open political maneuvering, city councillors last night exchanged angry words over what one member described as the exploitation of racial issues surrounding the closing of a predominantly Black private school in the mostly white Brattle St. neighborhood...
...last week's meeting, school affiliates told the council that race was the predominant factor in neighborhood objections that led the school to sell its property and move out of the affluent Brattle St. area. At the instigation of Walsh and Councillor Saundra Graham, the council voted to establish a blue ribbon committee to investigate allegations of racial harassment...
...issue are the signatures of more than 200 neighborhood residents--including those of Duehay and several Harvard professors--on a petition to the city's Board of Zoning Appeal. The petition sought to block the school's expansion...
Duehay has said he signed the petition because he opposes having an institutional building in a residential neighborhood. And he has stressed that for the same reasons, he opposes the sale of the property to the primarily white Lincoln Institite for Land Policy...
Unlike the CCA and Rainbow--which are waging citywide campaigns--Independent councillors tend to rely on strong support from neighborhood constituencies. But in recent years, Independent Councillors Thomas W. Danehy and Sheila T. Russell are campaigning farther afield...