Turner (Charles “Chuck”) is born in Cincinnati.

The son of Darwin and Laura (Knight) Turner, Chuck Turner graduates from Harvard College, works briefly as a journalist and organizer in Washington, D.C., Hartford, and New York City, and returns to Boston in 1966 to work for the South End Neighborhood Action Program. He founds the Third World Jobs Clearing House in 1975 and the Boston Jobs Coalition in 1977, and leads the effort to stop construction of the Inner Belt and Southwest Expressway. Turner lives on Fort Hill, marries Terri Small in 1994, and serves on the Boston City Council (1999-2012*). In his 50th anniversary college report, he writes, “I realized there would be no more fulfilling way of repaying my debt to my ancestors than devoting my life to organizing.” Turner dies in Roxbury on December 25, 2019.