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Robert Shaw's 54th Colored Regiment
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regim...
Rev. Magora E. Kennedy
Rev. Magora Kennedy is an African American lesbian activis...
Boston Women's Memorial: Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) came to America when she was ...
Patrick A. Collins
Patrick A. Collins (1844-1905) was the second Irish mayor ...
Boston Women's Memorial: Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an abolitionist and suffragette...
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) was born and raise...
Irish Famine Memorial
The Irish have always been a part of Boston’s histor...
Hudson Street
The land on Hudson Street in Boston’s thriving China...
George Middleton
George Middleton (1735-1815) was many things. He tended ho...
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks died March 5, 1770 during the Boston Massa...
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Robert Shaw's 54th Colored Regiment
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first all African American regiment to serve in the United States military. This was all made possible by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The regiment came out of Boston, but very few of the ...
Rev. Magora E. Kennedy
Rev. Magora Kennedy is an African American lesbian activist who was born in 1938. She is from New York and still resides there today, where she remains active in fighting for equality. She was born into an era that not ...
Boston Women's Memorial: Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) came to America when she was a sickly eight years old. After landing in Boston, John Wheatley bought her as a domestic slave for his wife Susana. John and Susana, then later their children, were all instrumental ...
Patrick A. Collins
Patrick A. Collins (1844-1905) was the second Irish mayor of Boston, serving from 1902-1905 when he died still in office. He was born in Ireland and when he was four, he and his mother immigrated to the United States. They ...
Boston Women's Memorial: Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an abolitionist and suffragette from a farm in Massachusetts. Even though her family were strong abolitionists, her father did not believe women had or should have equal rights. Initially, he did not support Lucy’s dreams and ...
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) was born and raised in Boston by a mixed race family. Her family was religious, her father helped found a Boston Zion church. The family was also considered one of the most well off and ...
Irish Famine Memorial
The Irish have always been a part of Boston’s history, but in small numbers. During the Great Famine or “An Gorta Mor,” an incredible number of Irish fled their native land for a new beginning in America. Between 1845 and ...
Hudson Street
The land on Hudson Street in Boston’s thriving Chinatown historically has been where many of the Chinese immigrants found their homes throughout history. It is also located on prime downtown real estate that offers a great location to transportation, hospitals, ...
George Middleton
George Middleton (1735-1815) was many things. He tended horses, he was a fighter for equality, and he was the commander of the Bucks of America. His home at 5-7 Pinckney Street, which is now a private residence, is the oldest ...
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks died March 5, 1770 during the Boston Massacre. He is considered the first martyr of the American Revolution and later became a role model during the civil rights movement of the 1850s. Little is known about Attucks, but ...
