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MR bills itself as "A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs." A key early focus was on civil rights as well as African-American history and culture; the Review published, among many others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Lucille Clifton, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr. [3] Sidney Kaplan, a founder of the Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the ...
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This is a list of militia units of the Colony and later Commonwealth of Massachusetts.. Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (1638); Cogswell's Regiment of Militia (April 19, 1775)
Faneuil Hall (/ ˈ f æ n j əl / or / ˈ f æ n əl /; previously / ˈ f ʌ n əl /) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Thomas Dudley (12 October 1576 – 31 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home.
Lewis Hayden was born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1811, as one of a family of 25. [1] [nb 1] His mother was of mixed race, including African, European, and Native American ancestry; slavery of Native Americans had been prohibited since the 18th century.
The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1840) was an abolitionist, interracial organization in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century."During its brief history ... it orchestrated three national women's conventions, organized a multistate petition campaign, sued southerners who brought slaves into Boston, and sponsored elaborate, profitable fundraisers."
Peter Bulkley (31 January 1583 – 9 March 1659, last name also spelled Bulkeley) was an influential early Puritan minister who left England for greater religious freedom in the American colony of Massachusetts.