91-Year-Old Civil Rights Leader Stabbed Multiple Times In Boston Park

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Paul Marotta/GETTY By Bry'onna Mention· Updated October 17, 2022

Last Tuesday night, Jean McGuire was stabbed several times in Franklin Park.

McGuire was the first Black woman elected to the Boston School Committee, first Black social worker to work in for Boston Public School and a former director of the METCO desegregation program

According to CBS Boston, McGuire, 91, was walking her dog Bailey through Playstead Park in Jamaica Plain

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