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The Allston park gets its proper due after a correction of a decades-old clerical error.
As Black History Month comes to a close, the correction of a decades-old clerical oversight has resulted in the proper naming of a park in Allston-Brighton after a prominent African-American citizen.
James H. Roberts, who died in 1969, was a resident of Seattle Street in Allston and a WWII veteran who worked for the State Treasury Department for 28 years and at the time of his death was the director of the Vietnam Conflict Veterans Bonus program. A member of the NAACP, Roberts was active in local church and youth organizations as well as the Cub Scouts as a Cubmaster and Committee Chairman of Cub Scout Troop One.  He was a veteran of the Massachusetts State Guard and served honorably in the Burma-China-India Theater.  ....

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