King served in the state Legislature for nearly a decade before becoming the first Black man to reach a Boston general mayoral contest, facing off against a fellow state representative, Ray Flynn.
Mayor Michelle Wu, the first woman and first person of color elected to lead Boston, offered condolences to the family of King, saying"his transformative ideas have shaped generations of organizers and leaders."
Flynn said he first met King, who grew up in the city's racially mixed South End, when the two played basketball as teenagers. "Mel King would be fighting for affordable housing for the people of the South End and Roxbury, and I would be doing the same for the people of South Boston," Flynn said."We were just two kids from the neighborhood who fought hard for our constituents."
Those divisions boiled over during the busing crisis, with South Boston High School becoming the center of racial strife as Black students were bused to the school under a court-ordered desegregation plan.
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