Kenneth Walden

This is a biography of my life growing up in Roxbury Ma 1942. Raised by my grandmother Mary Elizabeth James Walden born in 1882 in Charleston SC. Migrating to Roxbury Ma. in 1905 buying a four-family house at 61/63 Ottawa st. in 1910 We lived in a racially mixed neighborhood. I started working at Filene's Downtown Boston at 12yr old. Lived in Tuskegee Alabama in the early 1950s with my Father Dr. Robert Edison Walden who was a doctor treating patients suffering from the effects of Syphilis. His achievements can be found in Who's Who in American Medicine. Went into the service ( Air Force ) in 1957/ 1961 at 15 years old serving in Germany. Being. A founding member of the National Union of hospital and Healthcare Employees District 1199 Ma 1966 at Jewish Memorial hospital Townsend St Roxbury Ma. The first President of the District from 1975/1980 Served on the National Unions AFL/CIO Executive board as National Union Vice President from 1972/1980.  The first Black member of the National Arbitration Advisory Board for Healthcare Workers from 1972/to 1980

A member of the Metco Busing Program during the Busing strikes of the late 1960 and early 1970s served with Jean McGuire. Active in The late 1960s Civil Rights Movement dealing with the Roxbury problem of Eminent Domain and job issues. A Suffolk Superior Court Officer in 1984 and President of the board of Cambridge Economic Opportunity Commission in 1996 until medical problems forced me to retire in the early 2000s.So much more