![]() ![]() It was on these very steps that Governor Sargent officially called off the highway in response to the vocal community organizers. Activists old and young gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the monumental 1969 People Before Highways Rally where approximately 2,000 residents from the Greater Boston area assembled to stop the construction of the Innerbelt Expressway. Karilyn Crockett, in collaboration with city planning graduate students Meesh Zucker and Marissa Prasse, organized a rally on the steps of the Massachusetts State House. COLLABORATORS: Historic Boston, Inc., MIT CoLab, Mel King Institute/Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, Massachusetts Historical Society, Northeastern University Archives & Special Collections, Haymarket People’s Fund, Massachusetts Communities Action Network ![]()
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