Parcel C protest demonstration

Item Information

Title:
Parcel C protest demonstration
Description:
Chinatown residents carry signs, a banner, and bullhorns as they demonstrate against the proposal to build a garage on Parcel C in Chinatown. In the 1990s, the New England Medical Center negotiated with the City of Boston to build a parking garage on Parcel C in Chinatown, land which had previously been promised to Chinatown residents for a community center. The Chinese Progressive Association helped form the Coalition to Protect Parcel C, which was instrumental in halting the New England Medical Center's plan. In this image, a woman with a bullhorn leads the demonstration against the proposal to build a garage on Parcel C in Chinatown and stops for a moment to speak to an elderly Chinese woman. In the foreground, demonstrators carry a banner that reads: "NO GARAGE ON OAK ST." Mayoral candidate Bruce C. Bolling is standing second from the right holding the banner. In the background, the demonstrators carry signs that read: "VOTE. LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE on NEMC's garage proposal on PARCEL C! Vote in the Chinatown Referendum Sunday, Sept. 12, 1993, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Chinese Merchant's Building, 20 Hudson Street. Monday, Sept. 13, 1993, 8:00 am - 7 pm, Quincy Elementary School, 885 Washington Street." In the right background, one demonstrator carries a sign that says: "We can Win! Vote Bruce Bolling for Mayor For a better Boston."
Photographer:
Brugge, Douglas M.
Date:
August 1993
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Northeastern University Library
Archives and Special Collections
(M163) Box 12, Folder 10 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Chinese Progressive Association records (M163)
Subjects:
Chinese Americans--Massachusetts--Boston
Community organization--Massachusetts--Boston
Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Bolling, Bruce C.
Chinese Progressive Association (Boston, Mass.)
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Tufts University
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 photograph : 5 x 3.5 inches
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20185572
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Notes:
Collection Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20296997
Identifier:
A016038