BOSTON — A 91-year-old woman survived being stabbed multiple times while walking her dog in Franklin Park Tuesday night, according to the Boston Police Department.
That woman is Boston civil rights pioneer Jean McGuire, a source confirmed to the Herald. McGuire was the first Black woman on the Boston City School Committee, according to a biography from Northeastern University. The BPD does not name surviving victims of violent attacks, said Sgt. Det. John Boyle, the department’s chief spokesman.
“In the same week that we lost a 14 yo to senseless gun violence, Jean McGuire, 91 yo for ED of METCO was stabbed at Franklin Park!” former city councilor Tito Jackson tweeted in response to the news. “She fought for our civil rights for years in the face of danger to have a coward stab her at 91.”
