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The school's namesake is Abby Kelley Foster, a noted 19th-century leader in abolitionist and women's rights movements who resided in Worcester. On February 25, 2003, the Board of Education voted unanimously to renew the school's 5-year charter.
Abby Kelley Foster (January 15, 1811 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer active from the 1830s to 1870s. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-Slavery Society , where she worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison and other radicals.
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Abby Kelley Foster was born in Pelham, Massachusetts, raised in the Quaker faith, and first became a teacher at a Quaker school in Lynn, Massachusetts. By the 1830s she became active in the local anti-slavery society, and began speaking in favor the immediate emancipation of slaves.
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1845 Became a Garrisonian Abolitionist through influence of Abby Kelley Foster. 1846-47 Conducted antislavery fairs in Ohio; attended antislavery fairs and meetings in Boston. 1848 May have attended Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York .