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Byron Rushing is a former Representative for the 9th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Rushing was born July 29, 1942 in New York City, as the youngest son of William and Linda Rushing. He attended Harvard University from 1960 to 1964, leaving in his junior year to participate in the Civil Rights Movement and work for the Congress of Racial Equality in Syracuse, New York. Rushing returned to Boston in 1964 to work as a community organizer for several organizations, including the Northern Student Movement and the Roxbury Associates. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 where he became interested in African American history. From 1972 to 1984, Rushing served as president of Boston's Museum of Afro American History, now the Museum of African American History. Rushing was elected to the Massachusetts State House of Representatives for the 9th Suffolk District in 1982-2019. He and his wife, Frieda Garcia, were presented with the Harriet Tubman Community Achievement Award in 2012, and Rushing was awarded a HistoryMaker Award by The History Project in 2014. In this interview, Rushing speaks about growing up in New York and community organizing in Boston. Rushing outlines his family background and speaks on growing up in a poor family in the Bronx and Syracuse, New York. He speaks about the energy and optimism of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960's, which motivated him to begin community and tenet organizing in Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts. He speaks about the Northern Student Movement, including establishing tutoring programs and empowering the Black community. Rushing reflects on Boston's public education environment in the 1960's, and the limited success of programs for Black students such as Operation Exodus. Rushing speaks about organizing in Lower Robury for the Roxbury Associates, particularly, the organization's successful advocacy to clean up Madison Park and organizing tenets living in the Campus High School Urban Renewal Area. Other topics discussed include tenet organizer Ralph Smith, the Center for Inner City Change, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the Museum of African American History, and sociopolitical changes in Roxbury over time.
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Political activity
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Boston
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Boston
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Boston
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Oral history interview transcript with Byron Rushing
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Byron Rushing
Byron Rushing
Byron Rushing
Byron Rushing
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.)
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.)
Associated name
Associated name
photographs
2004
2004
Collection finding aid: https://archivesspace.library.northeastern.edu/repositories/2/resources/947
Massachusetts
Boston
Massachusetts
Boston
Massachusetts
Boston
African American men
African Americans
African American men
Massachusetts
Boston
African Americans
Rushing Byron
Rushing Byron
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African American men
African Americans
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Byron Rushing
Lower Roxbury Black History Project records (M165)
interview with Byron Rushing
Byron Rushing
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Byron Rushing
2004
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African Americans Massachusetts Boston
Rushing Byron
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.)
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.)
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Video, 1989

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Transcript, 2007

Transcript, 1989

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