Mildred C. Hailey
Mildred C. Hailey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1933 |
| Died | 2016 |
| Occupation | Community activist |
Mildred C. Hailey nee Younger (1933 – 2016) was a community activist.
Hailey was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Her family moved to Boston when her father got a job at the Charleston Naval Shipyard during World War II.[1]
After getting married in 1951 and moving to Jamaica Plain, Hailey and Anna Mae Cole among other others started the first tenant management corporation (TMC) in the nation at the Bromley-Heath public housing development in 1971.[2] Hailey was the executive direction of the TMC.[3] The tenant management corporation ran its own security force and community radio. Hailey retired from the corporation in 2012.[4]
In 2016, the Bromley-Heath apartments were renamed the Mildred C. Hailey apartment after Hailey.[1] Hailey was interviewed by Karilyn Crockett for Crockett's book, People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making.[5] In 2023, she was recognized as one of "Boston’s most admired, beloved, and successful Black Women leaders" by the Black Women Lead project.[6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Heath, Richard (2016-05-20). "Bromley Heath Homes Renamed for Longtime Housing Leader Mildred Hailey". Jamaica Plain News. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Flynn, Ray (2015-11-26). "Flynn: Roxbury activist a D.C. legend, too". Boston Herald. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Swenson, Sally. "People of JPNDC: Julia Martin". JPNDC. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Bromley-Heath leader retires; BHA takes over – Jamaica Plain Gazette". jamaicaplaingazette.com. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Johnson, Marilynn S. (Summer 2019). "People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making". Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 47 (2): 158–160 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Black Women Lead". Greater Grove Hall Main Streets. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
- ^ Sullivan, Mike (2023-10-04). "Portraits along Blue Hill Avenue honor Boston's Black women leaders". CBS Boston. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
- ^ Gaskin, Ed (10 April 2025). Black Women Lead: Boston's Most Admired, Beloved, and Iconic Leaders, 1700 - Present. Independently published. ISBN 979-8317465209.
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