Tent City demonstration begins.

Organized by the Community Assembly for a United South End, the four-day demonstration/occupation occurs in a parking lot at 130 Dartmouth Street. Its purpose is to protest the lack of affordable housing in the neighborhood and the displacement of residents by urban renewal. Demonstrators clash with police, and 23 are arrested. Demonstrators return the next day, pitch tents, and occupy the site for three more days, until April 29, 1968. Annual and occasional protest continue through the 1970s. A Tent City community development corporation is established in 1979 and the site is eventually developed for an affordable housing development that opens in 1988.*