“The Street is Memory”: Resisting Boston’s Urban Removal

Allan Rohan Crite was both a history keeper and anti-gentrification activist using his renderings of his neighbors in the South End and Lower Roxbury to document the displacement caused by urban renewal which Crite referred to as “urban removal.” Join us as we discuss this complex history and the ways in which community trusts neighborhood activists policy makers and artists today are striving to preserve and protect Boston’s diverse neighborhoods and communities.

Image Credit: Allan Rohan Crite (American 1910–2007) Burning and Digging: South End Housing Project January 1940. Watercolor with ink and white highlights 38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.) Boston Athenaeum Gift of the artist 1971 (A U9 Cri.a. 1940.b). Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library

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