Oral history interview recording 1 of 2 with Anna Cole

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Title:
Oral history interview recording 1 of 2 with Anna Cole
Description:
Recording 1 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 discusses her personal background and education, her family,and her role in the Bromley-Heath community, including her work with the Bromley-Heath Community Center, the Modernization Taskforce, the Tenant Management Council, and the Tenant Policy Council. She comments on the goals of the Modernization Council and its successor the Tenant Management Council/Corporation, namely a comprehensive management and maintenance program for public housing that involves the whole family, and includes directing tenants to proper resources for their problems such as mental health. She comments on the employment services and opportunities that Bromley-Heath provided, including hiring tenants for the Tenant Management Council jobs and jobs available through this council, training programs for tenants, the Neighborhood Employment Center, and their work advocating for a poverty center. She remarks on the senior center at Bromley-Heath, as well as youth in the neighborhood, specifically the teen center operated by a teen council. She also discusses projects that the tenants undertook with the Tenant Management Council including the gardening and beautification project as well as community celebrations. She comments on food security in the area, mentioning a program that brought inexpensive vegetables to low income communities and housing developments, Stop & Shop, and the Jamaica Plain Co-op. Cole also discusses relationships between the Bromley-Heath community and the community of Jamaica Plain. Other topics mentioned include: Peabody (Mass.),United Community Services, Jamaica Plain All Parks Alliance for Change (APAC) core, City Hall, Southwest Corridor Project, pollution, Barbara Lance, Haffenreffer Brewery, local defunct factories, commuter train, Arnest[?] Pickle Works(on Terrace Street), Crossroads[?bar at the corner], New Hampshire, Roslindale, Jamaica Pond, McDonald's, Fenway, Children's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia Point (public housing development), Housing Authority, Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), suburbs, Franklin Park, “The Giant's Cave” in Franklin Park, Ellis Ash (Housing Authority Administrator), DELTA drug program funded by OEO, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Creator:
Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor
Date:
[ca. 1973–1974]
Format:
Documents
Genre:
Oral histories (literary works)
Location:
Boston City Archives
Collection (local):
Boston 200 records (279.001)
Subjects:
Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.)
Public housing
Community organization
Public housing--Management--Tenant participation
Food security
Employment
Southwest Corridor Project (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Jamaica Plain
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Language:
English
Identifier:
0279001-oh-041_02