11 Facts About Doris Bunte

Doris Bunte was a Massachusetts state representative and an administrator of the Boston Housing Authority.

Doris Bunte was the first African-American woman to hold either position.

Doris Bunte was born on July 2,1933, in New York City and educated in the New York City public schools.

Doris Bunte was a tenant activist at the Orchard Park housing project in Roxbury.

Doris Bunte was a member of the National Rent Board, the Critical Minority Affairs Committee, the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, the National Tenants Organization, and the Citizens Housing and Planning Association.

In 1972, Bunte was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where she served for 12 years.

Doris Bunte was the first African-American woman elected to the Massachusetts state legislature.

Doris Bunte was the first BHA official who had lived in public housing.

Doris Bunte was the first African-American woman to hold that position in Boston, and the first former public housing tenant to lead a public housing agency in a major city.

Doris Bunte was among the three founding members of the Massachusetts Legislative Black Caucus.

Doris Bunte died on February 15,2021, from cancer in her home in Brookline, Massachusetts.