Mytown , an acronym for Multicultural Youth Tour of What's Now , was a youth organization based in Boston , Massachusetts , USA , engaging young people in learning about and teaching others about the local history of their urban neighborhood.
5-490: My Town may refer to: Mytown (organization) (Multicultural Youth Tour of What's Now), a youth organization in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Music [ edit ] Mytown , an Irish boy band, a predecessor of the pop rock band The Script Mytown (album) , their self-titled album My Town (album) , an album by Montgomery Gentry "My Town" (Montgomery Gentry song) ,
10-464: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mytown (organization) Mytown was founded in 1995 by Karilyn Crockett and Denise Thomas, with a mission to "use the process of sharing local history to empower young people and build appreciation of urban neighborhoods. Mytown believes that young people and communities can realize the power local history has in increasing youth activism and decreasing
15-561: The city in which she was raised. She went on a walking tour of Roxbury and the South End , learning about the history of the Pullman Porters, Tent City Settlement, and about the many migrants and immigrants from around the world that had built and transformed Boston over 350 years. Crockett's tour was transformative; for the first time she felt that Boston was a place that she could call "my town." This Massachusetts -related article
20-458: The stereotypes that stigmatize urban neighborhoods." Since the organization's founding, mytown has trained nearly 300 low and moderate-income Boston teenagers in learning the history of their neighborhood, community and city. Once trained, members lead historical walking tours of Boston's neighborhoods to almost 10,000 Boston residents and visitors annually. Founder Karilyn Crockett, as a young African American girl, felt disconnected from Boston,
25-602: The title track "My Town" (Glass Tiger song) , 1991 "My Town" (Hollywood Undead song) , 2011 "My Town", a song by Buck-O-Nine from Twenty-Eight Teeth Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title My Town . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Town&oldid=1179989583 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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