Mandela, Massachusetts

Mandela, Massachusetts

Mandela was a proposed city that would be formed as a result of some districts seceding from Boston, Massachusetts.

The districts, including parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and the South End, were populated mainly by African-Americans and Latinos, and the movement was driven by black community leaders. The name was inspired by Nelson and Winnie Mandela, popular South African anti-Apartheid activists.

The proposal was defeated in 1986, when its proponents realized that the vast majority of residents of the proposed "city" consumed tax payer-funded services in far greater quantities than they could pay for them.


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