Byron Rushing

President, Roxbury Historical Society; Public historian; Former MA State Representative (1983-2018); retired community organizer

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

I don’t think this 3-decker wandered off. It’s herd was slaughtered

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Or it could be Revolution: No fence. No tickets

[Jeff Byrnes 🚰 @thejeffbyrnes]

@ByronRushing Mattapan has never been part of Dorchester.

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Only legal legislated boundaries of neighborhoods. If you don’t see your favorite; it is in one of these

East Boston in 1637
South Boston in 1804
Roxbury, 1868
Dorchester, 1870
West Roxbury, 1874 (separated from Roxbury in 1851)
Charlestown, 1874
Brighton. 1874
Hyde Park, 1912

[Jeff Byrnes 🚰 @thejeffbyrnes]

@ByronRushing Mattapan has never been part of Dorchester.

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

I regard it with inaccuracies

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Grove Hill is not Dorchester. Tell us what authority you are using for boundaries

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Who took Mattapan out of Dorchester?

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Grove Hill is not Dorchester. Tell us what authority you are using for boundaries

[David Leonard @dleonard]

One more official step forward for @BPLBoston and @BostonNeighbor and @CityOfBoston

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

My “quotation” are a polite way to signal the colonists were “white” and mostly pro-slavery. The radical Europeans were “white” and mostly anti-slavery. Those arguments must have been interesting

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

“We” are the first British colonies to gain “their”independence through war. Lafayette and other European radicals supported this movement and joined to finance it and to kill British soldiers and Tories.

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

“We” are the first British colonies to gain “their”independence through war. Lafayette and other European radicals supported this movement and joined to finance it and to kill British soldiers and Tories.

[GBH Archives @GBHArchives]

Who was Marquis de Lafayette? People outside Lafayette Place Mall in Boston were asked about it in July 1989.

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[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

I just signed a @commoncause petition: Social media platforms MUST combat election disinformation, hate speech, harassment, and other harmful content on their sites. Sign here: https://t.co/V9JyfOnoEw

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

A quote for a sign on the door leading out of the exhibit: “You may choose to look the other way
but you can never say again that you did not know.”

From, William Wilberforce, speech to British Parliament, 1791

[Historic New England @HistoricNE]

@ByronRushing : As a community organizer, I had to train myself to listen to people. I was not going to be able to improve the community of Lower Roxbury; the people were going to be able to do that and I had to listen to them first. #HNESummit

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

It is too late to be satisfied with “small” actions. Wake up every morning committed to tell the truth, teach the truth. And the obverse, wake up every morning committed to call out the lies you hear that day, that you hear taught that day.

[Historic New England @HistoricNE]

@ByronRushing : As a community organizer, I had to train myself to listen to people. I was not going to be able to improve the community of Lower Roxbury; the people were going to be able to do that and I had to listen to them first. #HNESummit

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

“This is white political fragility in Boston…They just don’t have the numbers on their side. They don’t have time on their side, because the white people who are moving into Boston don’t like them.”

https://t.co/oouix8W5rJ

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Where are they taking them? Where is goth graveyard

[Karen Marshall @KarenTypesWords]

At 4:00 am I got caught in a funeral procession for an orange line train on 95 South.

[Historic New England @HistoricNE]

@ByronRushing : As a community organizer, I had to train myself to listen to people. I was not going to be able to improve the community of Lower Roxbury; the people were going to be able to do that and I had to listen to them first. #HNESummit

[Historic New England @HistoricNE]

Next up at #HNESummit: "Obliterating the Old Lens on Social History?" featuring @CatherineAllgor of @mhs1791, Bethany Groff Dorau of @newburyhist, @ByronRushing of the Roxbury Historical Society, and @KyeraChristine of @royallhouse.

[Speak for the Trees, Boston @Trees_Boston]

Letter in today's @BostonGlobe @GlobeOpinion by execdir of @AceEJ @dwaign + execdir of @Trees_Boston @daveedmesh. Boston's urban forest must not only plant, but also preserve. @CraneLedgeInfo #treeequity
For the sake of the city’s trees — and its residents
https://t.co/MqIn7A3v1m

[Byron Rushing @ByronRushing]

Where was he and tree? What street? Who is Dougie MacRay?

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

From the back, looks like Dougie MacRay.