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Dr. Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) came from an average middle-...
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party is an event that led to the occupatio...
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) was a self-taught man,...
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was one of the leading ...
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) was a lawyer, preacher, tea...
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...
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Dr. Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) came from an average middle-class farming family not far from Boston. He attended school and then at the age of fourteen he went to Harvard and graduated with his medical degree. It is through being a ...
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party is an event that led to the occupation of Boston by British soldiers. The Tea Act of 1773 was one of the final acts that led to the true rebellion of the patriots living in and ...
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) was a self-taught man, who loved to read. Through his love of reading he was able to become an inventor, statesman, and famous intellectual. He was born in Boston to a soap maker who eventually fathered seventeen ...
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was one of the leading figures during the abolitionist movement. He sought the “immediate and complete” freedom of all slaves. Garrison was a very bright child and a quick learner. When he was twelve, he began ...
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) was a lawyer, preacher, teacher, merchant mariner, activist, and an intellectual. He came from a well off Boston family of educated ministers. Paine’s people came from Tyrone, Ireland. One of which originally traveled to the New ...
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 ...
