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This Black Catholic religious sister is the namesake of BC’s AHANA and Intercultural Center.
Who is Thea Bowman?
In December 2023, we celebrated the 250th anniversary of this historic event most famously linked to Boston.
What is the Boston Tea Party?)
This professional sports franchise was the first in the league’s history to draft a black player when they selected Chuck Cooper in 1950.
What is the Boston Celtics?
Also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, this civil rights leader grew up in Roxbury.
Who is Malcolm X?
This town has the highest population of Chinese Americans in Massachusetts and is the birthplace of two U.S. presidents.
What is Quincy?
The year that all schools at Boston College became fully co-educational.
What is 1970?
Boston Red Sox hitter and first baseman David Ortiz, who hails from the Dominican Republic, played a key role in this historic event in 2004.
What is The World Series that broke the 86-year-old Curse of the Bambino?
The first public school gay-straight alliance in the US was started at this nearby public high school.
What is Newton South High School?
Doug Flutie’s paternal ancestors hailed from this Middle Eastern country.
What is Lebanon?
The African Meeting House, built in 1806, is the oldest existing black church building in the country and is located in this neighborhood in Boston.
What is Beacon Hill?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. completed this doctoral degree at Boston University in 1955.
What is systemic theology?
This patriotic fight against British colonial soldiers in 1775 included at least fifteen Native American soldiers
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
In 2019, this company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts announced the dosing of the first antibody encoded by mRNA in a clinical trial
What is Moderna?
This civil rights activist, the first African-American to run in a final election bid for mayor of Boston, died in 2023.
Who is Mel King?
This city in Bristol County is known for many things including being the birthplace of celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and the infamous chow mein sandwich.
What is Fall River?
This unique bridge in the only one in the world where a boat can sail under a train going under a vehicle driving under an airplane.
What is the Boston University bridge?
April 15th, designated as One Boston Day and dedicated to conducting random acts of kindness and helping others, was established in 2015, on the second anniversary of this historic event in the city
What is the Boston Marathon Bombing?
This was the first name of the Boston Red Sox.
What is the Boston Americans?
In November 2019, a bridge in Hyde Park was renamed after these abolitionist sisters, who moved there in 1864.
Who is The Grimké sisters?
In 1997, members of the Wampanoag tribe voted to change the name of the town of Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard to this name which means “land under the hill”.
What is Aquinnah?
This Massachusetts-born NAACP co-founder was the first Black person to receive a PhD from Harvard.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
Jennison v. Caldwell (1783) is one of the most significant court cases in Massachusetts’s history, and a landmark moment in this movement in our country’s history
What is the abolitionist movement? Or What is abolition?
As the 67th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1991, she is the first woman in the history of the state to hold a constitutional office
Who is Evelyn Murphy?
This Latino architect collaborated with Christian Menn to design the Zakim Bridge in Boston.
Who is Miguel Rosales from Rosales + Partners in Boston?
This utopian agrarian commune in Harvard, Massachusetts was where Louisa May Alcott wrote her novel, Little Women, in the 1840s.
What is Fruitlands?