People's History Podcast Jacobin

Columbia Point tenants face new management and a private police force.

In the turmoil of busing, Betty Ann Jones advocates armed defense while Betty Washington and Dorothy Haskins lead a wade-in to protest segregation.

Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point.

Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority.

During a period of urban rebellion, welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed.

Mothers at Columbia Point, a new public housing project in Boston, organize to try and close the city dump.