6. False Hope

Columbia Point tenants face new management and a private police force. This is the final, sixth episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

In the turmoil of busing, Betty Ann Jones advocates armed defense while Betty Washington and Dorothy Haskins lead a wade-in to protest segregation. This is the fifth episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point. This is the fourth episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority. This is the third episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

Welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed. This is the second episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

Mothers at Columbia Point, a new public housing project, organize to try and close the city dump. This is the first episode of “The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing.”

A story of rebellion and resistance in Boston public housing.