On the southern coast of Boston, a peninsula known as Columbia Point juts into the bay.

It was once the site of a major public housing project of the same name, a home to thousands of people.

But today, those housing projects are gone. The point has

been gentrified and any trace of the former community has been erased.

We're in families. Come on there. I'm seeing this and everybody else is seeing this across this country.

I'm going through these situations with these landlines.

The project stood on the front lines of busing and bore the brunt of white racism and violent policing during that time.

Force busing is morally and legally constitutionally law.

They were throwing eggs at the window and trying to hit people.

But just the harvest like they did this to children.

It was, yeah, it was horrible.

Painting wouldn't get done if things need painting when getting done. Playground was

falling apart. Elevators breaking and nobody would fix it. But in the face of all of

it, tenants at Columbia Point struggled for a better life and in the 60s and

70s there was a real mood of militancy.

Neighbors who got together in their own homes and their own apartments and talked

about safety, the needs.

Boston housing was a fiction of the property like they should,

so we've done a rent strike.

They knew what welfare rights stood for for the rights of the people.

From Jacobin magazine, this is a people's history.

And our first season is called The Point, Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.

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