{"id":1578,"date":"2017-08-25T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/?page_id=1578"},"modified":"2021-03-30T19:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:33:52","slug":"roxbury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roxbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1503687864887{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Corner of Dudley and Warren Streets (Dudley Square) in 1856, as Irish and other immigrants were first moving into this emerging streetcar suburb. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library. <\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_69e36cde5522a{font-size:36px;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl vc_custom_1503686879243 vcex_69e36cde5522a\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Roxbury<\/span><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1569614825410{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founded by English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1630, Roxbury was originally a sprawling town that included the present-day neighborhoods of West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Roxbury gradually evolved from a rural satellite of Boston into an early industrial community. Mills, tanneries, and quarries that mined the town\u2019s distinctive Roxbury puddingstone marked the landscape by the time of the American Revolution. While the completion of a horse-drawn bus line in 1820 and the Boston-to-Providence Railroad in 1835 helped to turn Roxbury into a fashionable suburb for Boston\u2019s Yankee elite, new immigrants soon followed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foremost among these were the Irish, who remained a dominant presence in the neighborhood for the next century. Recently unearthed headstones near the site of St Joseph\u2019s, Roxbury\u2019s first Catholic church, show that a number of the town\u2019s famine-era Irish came from County Donegal. Roxbury\u2019s 19th-century Irish worked in factories as well as in day labor, domestic service, and in a number of trades. \u00a0By the turn of the 20th century, they had transformed several blocks along Dudley Street into a cultural hub packed with dance halls and performance venues like Hibernian Hall. They also formed a substantial enclave around Mission Hill, named after the Mission Church founded by the Redemptorist Fathers in the 1870s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Hill was also home to an expanding German community beginning in the middle of the 19th century. Breweries and other German-operated businesses proliferated along Stony Brook, while tenements and row houses accommodated the neighborhood\u2019s growing numbers of industrial workers. Eager to incorporate these new industries into the city, Boston annexed Roxbury in 1868. By 1900 Roxbury was home to a strikingly diverse array of immigrants from Europe and the Americas: Irish, Germans, Jews, Scandinavians, Italians, Latvians, and a substantial enclave of Maritime Canadians, who briefly became Roxbury\u2019s largest immigrant group in the first decade of the 20th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1583\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1583\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bh.jpg\" alt=\"Known as the Blue Hill shul, Adath Jeshurun occupied this building from 1905 until 1967. It was one of dozens of Jewish synagogues founded in Roxbury in the early 20th century.\" width=\"531\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bh.jpg 800w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bh-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bh-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Known as the Blue Hill shul, Adath Jeshurun occupied this building from 1906 until 1967. It was one of dozens of Jewish synagogues founded in Roxbury in the early 20th century. Today it is home to the First Haitian Baptist Church.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ten years later, Roxbury\u2019s rising Jewish population had become the dominant presence in the neighborhood. The first wave had begun arriving in the 1870s, as families that had found a measure of success in the North and South Ends moved south to the \u201cfirst suburbs\u201d of Roxbury and Dorchester. By the 1890, synagogues and kosher food suppliers were common sights in the Grove Hall area. The first two decades of the 20th century saw a second influx of Jewish immigrants, many of them fleeing persecution in the western provinces of the Russian Empire. To accommodate these new arrivals, temples like Adath Jeshurun (1906) and Mishkan Tefila (1925) proliferated throughout the neighborhood. Jews remained a dominant group in Roxbury until World War II, when a second migration began to western \u201csecond suburbs\u201d like Newton and Brookline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roxbury\u2019s ethnic composition changed once again in the middle decades of the 20th century. Beginning in the 1930s, native-born African Americans who had previously lived in Beacon Hill and the South End, as well as new immigrants from the Caribbean, came to dominate Lower Roxbury and the old Jewish neighborhood around Fort Hill. West Indians, many of whom worked as domestics, had a small but growing presence in Roxbury by the end of the Depression decade, and the ongoing migration of Jamaicans and Barbadians during and after World War II helped transform Roxbury into one of the Northeast\u2019s most prominent Black communities. Other factors contributed to the midcentury demographic shift, too: redlining, white flight, and blockbusting by real estate groups further cemented Roxbury\u2019s status as a predominantly Black neighborhood by 1970.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1584\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1584\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kids-outside-with-border.jpg\" alt=\"The Rafael Hernandez School, founded in 1971, has long served the Latino community of Roxbury and Boston and is now a two-way bilingual school. Courtesy Rafael Hernandez School.\" width=\"443\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kids-outside-with-border.jpg 808w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kids-outside-with-border-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kids-outside-with-border-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Rafael Hernandez School, founded in 1971, has long served the Latino community of Roxbury and Boston and is now a two-way bilingual school. Courtesy Rafael Hernandez School.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The neighborhood\u2019s Latino presence also grew substantially in the postwar decades. Dominicans began arriving in the 1950s; migration accelerated after the 1961 assassination of Rafael Trujillo and the ensuing political instability. The Puerto Rican population in Roxbury also grew in the late 1950s and 60s, and a number of community organizations formed to accommodate the neighborhood\u2019s rising Spanish-speaking population. La Alianza Hispana community center was founded in 1970 to provide the neighborhood\u2019s growing numbers of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans with Spanish-language services. Puerto Rican Pentecostals founded the Canaan Defensores de la Fe in 1966, while the evangelical Center for Urban Ministerial Education provided preachers with Spanish-language instruction beginning in 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent decades, newcomers from the Caribbean have continued to account for much of the immigration to Roxbury. The Dominican community has expanded since 1990 to become the neighborhood\u2019s largest immigrant group by a wide margin; many moved from Jamaica Plain as gentrification and the repeal of rent control in 1994 drove up property values. Meanwhile, Africans constitute a smaller, yet growing, segment of the foreign-born population. Cape Verdeans, for example, were an almost invisible presence in the neighborhood in 2000, but by 2015 they were second only to Dominicans. St. Patrick Catholic Church on Magazine Street has become an important religious center for both of these groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the 1990s, Africans from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, and Somalia have also arrived in a small but steady stream. These immigrants have opened new restaurants and businesses in the community as well as helping establish new churches and a mosque. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center\u2014then under construction in Roxbury Crossing\u2014became the center of a major controversy that lasted for most of the decade. The mosque ultimately opened in the summer of 2009 and now represents more than sixty nationalities. These newer groups, together with older African American and Latino residents, have come together to form vibrant community organizations like the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, which administers a number of essential neighborhood programs and works to empower Roxbury\u2019s residents in local politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These groups are at the forefront of Roxbury\u2019s rich immigrant past. Today, this growing immigrant neighborhood\u2014about 28 percent foreign born, mirroring the statistics for Boston as a whole\u2014remains on the frontline of ongoing struggles around immigration, gentrification, housing, and development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Samuel Davis<\/p>\n<h2>Sources and Further Reading<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Gamm, Gerald. <em>Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, Marilynn. <em>The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Region since the 1960s.<\/em> Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, Violet Showers. <em>The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950<\/em>. Bloomingon: Indiana University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Roxbury Historical Society, <a href=\"http:\/\/roxburyhistoricalsociety.org\/about-roxbury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;About Roxbury.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarna, Jonathan D. and Ellen Smith. <em>The Jews of Boston<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, Robert A. and Albert J. Kennedy, <em>The Zone of Emergence: Observations of the Lower Middle and Upper Working Class Communities of Boston, 1905-1914<\/em>. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1962 (chapter 5 on Roxbury and Dorchester).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e36cde55a90 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1617132809111 vcex_69e36cde55a90\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roxbury\/dudley-street\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Dudley Street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"2985\" height=\"2338\" src=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Frank-Storer-at-Piano-1.jpg\" class=\"wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"Frank Storer looks at the camera as he plays piano in the foreground. Behind him, there are three other instrumentalists, playing string instruments. In the background, there are many men and women dancing and talking.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Frank-Storer-at-Piano-1.jpg 2985w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Frank-Storer-at-Piano-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Frank-Storer-at-Piano-1-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Frank-Storer-at-Piano-1-1024x802.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2985px) 100vw, 2985px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/immigrant-places\/roxbury\/dudley-street\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Dudley Street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dudley Street: Crossroads of Celtic Music<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>Before Roxbury was home to hip-hop and salsa, fiddles and accordions were the instruments of choice. From the 1920 to the 1960s, Irish and Canadian immigrants brought their native music to the many dance halls that lined Dudley Street. While the scene is long gone, its influence lives on in a vibrant Celtic music tradition in Boston today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<style>.vcex-teaser.vcex_69e36cde56369 .vcex-teaser-heading{color:#494949;}<\/style><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-teaser wpex-flex wpex-flex-col vc_custom_1617132745903 vcex_69e36cde56369\"><div class=\"vcex-teaser-media wpex-mb-20 responsive-video-wrap\"><span class=\"wpex-responsive-media\"><iframe title=\"Frieda Garcia Interview\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VLo2PoOuaXE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><div class=\"vcex-teaser-content\"><h2 class=\"vcex-teaser-heading wpex-heading wpex-text-lg wpex-child-inherit-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalboston.bc.edu\/index.php\/home\/ethnic-groups\/dominicans\/frieda-garcia\/\" class=\"wpex-no-underline\" title=\"Frieda Garcia\">Organizing Boston's Latino Community: Frieda Garcia<\/a><\/h2><div class=\"vcex-teaser-text wpex-mt-10 wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><p>In this video, Dominican immigrant and longtime activist Frieda Garcia discusses her early years in the US and her work as the founding director of La Alianza Hispana in the 1960s. This excerpt is part of a longer interview conducted by Marilynn Johnson at Northeastern University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1503687864887{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 10px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;] Corner of Dudley and Warren Streets (Dudley Square) in 1856, as Irish and other immigrants were first moving into this emerging streetcar suburb. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library. 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