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ABCD Timeline 1972-1977

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The young US Senator Ted Kennedy at ABCD in 1972.
 
   
   
1973

ABCD and three other community action agencies file a successful class action suit to prevent President Nixon from abolishing the Office of Economic Opportunity.

 

 
   
1976
Citywide meetings held at ABCD with representatives of all Boston neighborhoods during most difficult period of school desegregation.
 
  1972
     
   
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Cardinal Humberto Medeiros testifying in support of ABCD in 1974.
     
  1974
   

Fuel Assistance Program begins.

     
   
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Bob Coard and author James Baldwin in 1977.
   
  1977
   

Economic Development Corp. and Charlestown CDC begin Chinese

ABCD History 1978-1983 >>