…Layman Tracy Hunter joined the International Gospel Party, which staged revivals at churches across the country; his first revival in Roxbury was at the Columbus Avenue AME Zion Church with…
Paul Parks
Paul Parks An interview with Paul Parks (1923-2009), a former engineer, civil rights activist, and shaper of education policy in Boston. Parks was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and he entered…
Osceola Brown Nathan
Osceola Brown Nathan An interview with Osceola Brown Nathan (1914-), who moved to Lower Roxbury from Newport News, Virginia when she was eleven years old. In Interview 1, Nathan recalls…
Harvey Sanford and Willis D. Saunders, Jr.
…an airplane inspector at Hanscom Field and then Logan Airport, retiring in 1980. Saunders joined the police force. Sanford and Saunders talk about the discrimination they faced seeking higher education…
Archives & Special Collections
Archives & Special Collections The Archives and Special Collections at Northeastern University Libraries houses and carefully curates a diverse and growing collection of historical records relating to Boston’s fight for…
Reverend Michael E. Haynes
Reverend Michael E. Haynes An interview with Reverend Michael E. Haynes (1927-), former pastor of Twelfth Baptist Church and Massachusetts State Representative. Haynes talks about his early influences, the introduction…