A 91-year-old civil rights activist and education pioneer who was stabbed while walking her dog in a Boston park last week said Tuesday as she was released from the hospital that she no longer feels safe walking alone in the city:
Jean McGuire, then executive director of METCO, speak at a news conference, Oct. 7, 2003, in Boston. while walking her dog in a Boston park last week said Tuesday as she was released from the hospital that she no longer feels safe walking alone in the city.
McGuire, the first Black woman to serve on the Boston School Committee, was stabbed multiple times in an apparently unprovoked attack near the Franklin Park Zoo between 7:55 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 11, authorities said. “You’re angels without wings, I’ll tell you that,” she said. “Their parents should be so proud that they cared enough to get help because somebody’s laying on the street bleeding.”
McGuire in 1966 helped found METCO Inc., the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, a voluntary school desegregation program that sends students of color from Boston to predominantly white suburban schools. She became the program’s executive director in 1973 and served in the position until 2016, according to a biography posted by Northeastern University’s John D. O’Bryant African American Institute.
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