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New documentary looks at the families that shaped Roxbury in the 1960s and 1970s

The Roxbury Legacy Project

The Bay State Banner introduces us to the Roxbury Legacy Project.

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There is so much history that needs to be recorded--especially when you realize, as Reverend Haynes points out, how many things have changed--whole swaths of neighborhoods just vanished under the expansion of Northeastern, for example, and many others transformed.

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NEU didn't tear down anything or take any land which wasn't already a bombed out lot.

Arsonists, highway clearance, and the BRA on the other hand did.

Lower Roxbury went from being an extension of the South End to a southwestern strip mall in the span of 30 disastrous years.

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