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Che Madyun is African-American woman, born in 1953, and arrived in the Dudley Street neighborhood in 1976 following graduation from Emerson College in Dance. She had her three children in the neighborhood, and they activated her to advocate and seek better housing. The frequent fires nearby mobilized her to get to a community meeting which cemented her continuing role in fighting for the revitalization of the neighborhood to benefit current residents. A project of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and supported by a Mass Humanities project grant, Neighborhood Voices is an oral history project documenting the stories of families living in the Dudley Street neighborhood.

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University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library

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