 In 1968 Mel King helped organize a sit-in at the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) office on Thursday, April 25, 1968 in protest of a planned parking garage that was going to be built at the corner of Dartmouth and Columbus Streets in the South End, a site where housing had been leveled.The next morning, Mel King organized an occupation of the lot.While facing police retaliation, for the next three days between 100 and 400 people occupied the lot.