Oral history interview recording 2 of 2 with Anna Cole
Description:
Recording 2 of 2 of an oral history interview with Anna Cole, conducted by Eugene Green, Chairman of Tenant Management and resident of Bromley-Heath Public Housing Development. Cole comments on parental involvement in education, the education of her children, and how the Central Library and Codman Square Branch played a role in expanding her children’s education. She discusses community services that were available at Bromley-Heath, specifically the Martha Eliot Health Center, “The Cave” [teenage club at Bromley-Heath], All Parks Alliance for Change (APAC) community control, daycare, and the Bromley Cross Typing Program at Martha Eliot. Cole also discusses community services beyond Bromley-Heath, specifically the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, the Elma Lewis Playhouse, as well as Elma Lewis herself. Cole discusses Bromley-Heath’s connection to the Black community in Roxbury. She also remarks on community efforts to gain more funding for Bromley-Heath, specifically through their work with Norman Watser[?] and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the tenant demonstration at HUD. She discusses the process of establishing the Tenants Management Council (TMC), and the process of getting repairs through the TMC. Other topics mentioned include: Jefferson School, Mary E. Curley School, Veterans Hospital, Green Street Station, Blessed Sacrament, Home for Little Wanderers, Jamaica Plain High School, South Huntington General[?], Forest Hills, Station 13, South Street, Pond Street, Cardinal O'Connell Seminary building (currently the MSPCA building), the riot 1964-1965, Heath Street, YMCA, Roxbury Multi-Service Center, Malcolm X Foundation, Negro New England Grassroots Organization, Jamaica Pond, James W.Hennigan School, John F. Kennedy School, Lyman School, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Boston Public Library
