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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Doris Bunte
The Honorable Doris Bunte
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| Other authors / contributors: | Bunte, Doris, 1933- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, 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, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2016 October 19.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | State representative and city government official Doris Bunte was born July 2, 1933 in New York. She earned her B.A. and M. A. degrees from Harvard University. She moved to Massachusetts in 1953, a high school dropout with three children. She lived in public housing, became a civic activist, and advocated for better public housing. In 1969, Bunte was the first public housing tenant to be appointed to the Boston Housing Authority. In 1973, she became the first African-American woman elected to the Massachusetts legislature. Bunte helped found the Black Legislative Caucus. She served 12 years in the legislature then was appointed executive director of the Boston Housing Authority. Bunte left the Boston Housing Authority in 1992, and began working for the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University and the Boston University School of Public Health. She continued tenant-focused activist work and retired in 2010.
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