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| Neighborhood
Employment Centers are established in areas
of highest unemployment. |
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| 1968 |
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| Robert
M. Coard is promoted to ABCD Executive Director. In
following years he also assumes state and national
responsibilities as President of the Massachusetts
Community Action Foundation and the National Community
Action Foundation. |
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| US
House Speaker John W. McCormack, Erline Shearer
and Bob Coard in 1969. |
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| 1970 |
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| At
a neighborhood APAC board election, voter
turnout is twice that of a recent city election. |
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1967 |
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| Business
Industrial Advisory Committee created and training
programs developed with Honeywell, General Dynamics,
Remington, New England Office Machine Dealers
and IBM. ~ Roxbury Comprehensive Health Center
and Martha Eliot Health Center, Jamaica Plain
established, beginning a unique, comprehensive
network of health centers throughout the community.
~ Urban
College Program begins. |
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1969 |
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ABCD
offers first publicly-funded family planning services
in Massachusetts. ~ ABCD holds first Community Awards
Dinner. |
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| 1969
Dr. Paul Ylvisaker, former Ford Foundation officer
in charge of “Gray Areas” Project that
started ABCD, speaks at ABCD dinner. |
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1971 |
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ABCD
makes its Boston Legal Assistance Project (caseload of
11,000 individuals) an independent entity, thereby creating
Greater Boston Legal Services. |
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ABCD History 1972-1977 >>
