Roxbury Residents March for Peace

Publish Date: 
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Source: 
The Boston Globe
URL: 
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/11/peace_marchers_mourn_years_homicide_victims_in_roxbury/

 

If Tahitia Milton were still alive last night, she would have delighted in the March for Peace that made its way down Warren, Dudley, and Dearborn streets in Roxbury, her daughters said. Milton, a lifelong community activist, always spoke out against violence, especially violence that took

“She would have loved this,’’ said Milton’s daughter Diamond Johnson, 16, as she stood with the marchers on Dearborn Street. “Since I’ve been in seventh grade, my friends have been dying. Since she was young, her friends had been dying. She wanted to do something about this.’’

Milton was killed on Oct. 23 when a gunman toting an AK-47 opened fire in a Quick Stop Convenience store on Warren Street.

It was for Milton, and for the 13 other Roxbury homicide victims this year, that the Madison Park Development Corporation joined with resident associations, public health organizations, churches, and youth groups to organize last night’s Roxbury March for Peace.

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