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Say Brother; Community Organization; Cooper Community Center
Part of Say Brother.
11/29/1973
In this clip Richard Peters, Assistant Director of the Cooper Community Center, discusses the services available for the elderly at the the Cooper Community Center, a social services agency located in Lower Roxbury that provides senior citizen, youth, and daycare programs. Overall the program focuses on the work of five community organizations in the Boston area: the Cooper Community Center (a social services agency located in Lower Roxbury that provides senior citizen, youth, and daycare programs); the Bromley Heath Security Patrol (a private program for the tenants of the Bromley Heath Projects that provides mandatory grounds and building security checks); the Roxbury Action Program (a community development corporation working on housing development, housing rehabilitation, commercial development, social services, and physical and social planning); the F.I.R.S.T. Incorporated Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention Center (which provides services for overcoming addiction); and the Columbia Point Educational Program (a youth educational-services program for residents of Columbia Point). Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Conrad White.
License Clip
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Community Organization
- Program Number
307
- Title
Cooper Community Center
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program focuses on the work of five community organizations in the Boston area: the Cooper Community Center, a social services agency located in Boston's South End that provides senior citizen, youth and daycare programs; the Bromley Heath Security Patrol, a private program for the tenants of the Bromley Heath Projects that provides mandatory grounds and building security checks; the Roxbury Action Program, a community development corporation working on housing development, housing rehabilitation, commercial development, social services, and physical and social planning; the F.I.R.S.T. Incorporated Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention Center; and the Columbia Point Educational Program, a youth educational services program for residents of Columbia Point.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- FIRST Incorporated Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention Center (Boston, Mass.)
- Morrison, George
- Bromley Heath Security Patrol (Boston, Mass.)
- Human services--Massachusetts--Boston
- Harris, Emil
- Young, Sandy
- Columbia Point Educational Program (Boston, Mass.)
- Wade, National
- Roxbury Action Program (Boston, Mass.)
- Cooper Community Center (Boston, Mass.)
- Boyd, Douglas
- Lawrence, Tytyne
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Carew, Topper (Producer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Jones, Vickie (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Johnson, Henry (Filmmaker)
- Nicholas , Huntley, Jr. (Film Sound)
- Carew, Topper (Host)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Community Organization; Cooper Community Center,” 11/29/1973, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8BB26177822347EBBFB398B96DB3D843.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Community Organization; Cooper Community Center.” 11/29/1973. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8BB26177822347EBBFB398B96DB3D843>.
- APA: Say Brother; Community Organization; Cooper Community Center. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8BB26177822347EBBFB398B96DB3D843