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Offers a personal selection of entertaining and enlightening brief lives of notable residents of the city of Boston. Includes some 130 figures of local and national significance from the arts, literature, religion, politics, science and medicine, business, education, and sports. Some would be on every list of prominent Bostonians, and some will come as a genuine surprise. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Abigail Adams – thoughtfully patriotic woman of the Revolution / early Federal period
Emily Greene Balch – peace activist
Melnea Cass – civil rights and social justice leader
Allan Crite – self-educated artist
Mary Dyer – Quaker, proponent of freedom of religious conscience
Isabella Stewart Gardner – eccentric socialite and art collecter
Anne Hutchinson – religious leader
Elma Lewis – educator
Martin Lomasney – politician,
“The great mass of people are interested in only three things – food, clothing, and shelter. A politician in a district like mine sees to it that his people get these things. If he does, the he doesn’t have to worry about their loyalty and support.” (p. 166)
Robert Morris – lawyer and bridge-builder between African- and Irish – American communities.
Julia O’Connor – union activist
John Boyle O’Reilly – journalist and social activist
Mary Kenney O’Sullivan – union activist
Preston “Sandy” Sandiford – jazz musician
Lucy Stone – suffragist and feminist
Kip Tiernan – founder of Rosie’s Place ( )