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Mel King, whose 1983 mayoral campaign ushered in a new era in Boston race relations, dies at 94 // The Boston Globe
Adjunct Professor Emeritus Melvin “Mel” King, a political activist, former Massachusetts state representative, and the first Black person to reach a Boston mayoral general election, has died at 94. “[In 1971], he founded the Community Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became an adjunct professor of urban studies and planning. The program brings leaders from minority communities to MIT for a year of research and study.”
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