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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Melvin King
The Honorable Melvin King
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| Other authors / contributors: | King, Mel, 1928- interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2005 December 8.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2006 February 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Community activist and state representative Melvin King was born on October 20, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston Technical High School in 1946, received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1951 and received his M.A. degree in education from Boston State College. King left his position teaching high school math in 1953 to work with at-risk youth. He continued his community work, focusing on street corner gangs, as Youth Director at United South End Settlements (USES). In 1973, he was elected as a state representative for the 9th Suffolk District and served in the Massachusetts Legislature until 1982. In 1970, he founded and directed the Community Fellows Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT where he also served as an adjunct professor until 1996. In 2003, King created The New Majority to unite Boston's communities of color.
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