A wreath laying and public visitation is scheduled for Monday, with a funeral to follow on Tuesday.
, they are reflecting on his many contributions.
The South End technology center his father founded to help close the digital and financial divide in the community was the perfect backdrop for Michael King to reminisce about his father's earliest days growing up in Boston's immigrant-rich SoWa neighborhood.Sign up for NECN newsletters. Civil rights icon Mel King will forever be a part of Boston's history, and community leaders are honoring him after his death.
"Yeah, I remember some of it, the sort of main paper in Boston, they endorsed Flynn and they said, you now, that he was more articulate and better for downtown, all these types of things. The thing about that was you have Mel King with a long list of accomplishments as a legislator. And you had Ray Flynn, who, you know, didn't have quite as great of a list of accomplishments."Mel King marched for civil rights in Boston with Martin Luther King Jr.
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