BOSTON
For the better part of a century, the iconic image of a Boston mayor was James Michael Curley the real-life Irish American who was elected four times as the city’s chief between 1914 and 1946. Think Spencer Tracy in “The Last Hurrah.”
That stereotype may soon be going the way of Boston baked beans and tri-corner hats.
The city is on the cusp of having its first woman and person of color as mayor when current Mayor Marty Walsh becomes President Biden’s Labor secretary, presuming his nomination is approved, as expected, by the Senate. Walsh is the latest in a string of mostly Irish American mayors all men going back the better part of a century.
Turning point : Women of color increasingly leading Boston
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Turning point : Women of color increasingly leading Boston
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