Ten O'Clock News; Maverick housing project

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time I wore it three to one respect maverick for a long time I'm sure changed a lot in the years you've been there. You tell me about it. Well I find great difference in the last five years of marriage prior to this. Kids were really good kids and as far as I know they have my raise my own children and they had to have their own usual little fights in this but not like big major things that they're doing today. In the past year or six months anyway it's been a terrible land. Is it racial or is it just gangs of kids of mixed races. Any one of them. It's not a black against white. They tell me but I don't I really don't think it's that really. What sort of damage are they doing damage.

Firing people and bothering people I work with elderly people and people they're actually afraid they're afraid to move their freight to grow day on. There's been handbags going into apartments and they say that they want. I've actually been afraid to go home. After Work. Why did no one ever knew what I'd find gone. I recently have a dear apartment you want to tell us about. While I was. Absent from my home one night for about an hour I had gone home from work. And in an hour's time had had my supper and I left to go to a neighbor's house I hadn't been there very long when I heard on the radio place radio she had that there was a fire at my at 10. I left knowing it was in my building never dreaming it was my own home because I had been there after supper and everything was all right. I have lived in the projects for 30 and I thought you know I don't bother these kids and

I did. I thought they liked me some I had had some disagreement about breaking my window. And that. But on the whole the kids were pretty good kids and my place it was the firemen were in and it was in shambles and 30 is was gone. And my three little poodles were dead. And the fire department it was said it was very careful with my cigarette. First of all I don't smoke that much. And I had left the house in prayer. You know I knew it was all right. And I have reason to doubt that I have. I had gone in complaining to manager. Two days in a row. And that I was afraid to play. And that was Monday and I went to a Thursday the place was on fire. How do you feel about living there now. I would be afraid. I'm really afraid.

Are you not going back. No I'm not going back. Thank you. I'm going to do another one so we can. You know. That was horrible. You know we just follow up over here what's been happening.

Robert OK. Five four three two one. Mother Guard guys you know there's been a lot of problems at Maverick during the past couple of weeks and now it seems that most of the black families have gone elsewhere. How do you feel about the situation. Well I don't like the fact that we lost residents of our community who had to leave because they felt under pressure and danger to their lives and their livelihood. I'm hoping that the people principally the people in the project the people who run it know manager and the residents of the project to. Have this type of thing as much as anybody else will be able to get together over the summer and restore a sense of good feeling in order to the projects so that it will never be a repetition of what happened in the last years. Racial conflict was at the root of the problem. I think it's obvious that there was racial feeling directed against black families in the project by a few people who managed to avoid the normal mechanisms that society has for dealing with people like that.

The courts and the police and the social agencies and the churches for one reason or another we're not able to muster among themselves the resources. To stop this before the 12 families had to move. But I think there has been some progress in the last few weeks. I think there's a lot of people who are concerned particularly residents of the project were concerned that this is not going to happen again tonight. I'm optimistic that. That they'll be able to just. To. Keep the calm that's. Happened over the last couple. What specifically could they do about this group of persons who are causing the trouble. When people in sight when people use fear as their weapon the only remedy for that is for other people to say we're not afraid and we're not going to give into the tactics of fear. And I think there are enough people who live in an average housing project and there are people who work there who are willing to say that and to demonstrate that they will not succumb to the tactics of fear that some folks have used against them in the past. Thank you.

Now I want to change. That. 5 4 3 2 1. Mrs. Porter you've lived in a maverick area for a long time and you're still there. How do you feel about the situation. I feel bad about the families because I had a lot of friends. But you're not afraid.

I had good reason to be afraid. Think that it's only a small group of people in maverick who are have been harassing the blacks and causing this trouble. It's only a small group are the troublemakers to begin with. You know. So it's not just a question of black vs. white. You know what could be done about these people. Know what's going to happen and. I don't know. I hope something is done and. The laws contradict this but hopefully something. Will turn up. What about the black family or friends that have moved elsewhere are they happier now. I don't know I can't say that because they just moved

and to really know the place and know whether you like it or not for Wall impact sure they'll miss East Boston because they were the majority of them were here for. How many years have you been there. 12. You know and well like I said I intend to stay. I won't be pushed I'll take a tried but I won't be pushed. I'll be there. You think that that more black families will move in here or will I be afraid. Well with all the news and the papers I think it would be kind of hard to get a black family to move about the police. They've been doing their job well. I don't want to make a comment on that. Would you like to see more police protection. Yeah and I'd like to see more black policing.

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