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    The Massachusetts General Colored Association was organized in Boston in 1826 to combat slavery and racism. The Association was an early supporter of...
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    needed] In January 1833, Thomas Dalton, president of the Massachusetts General Colored Association, led a successful petition to merge with the New England...
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  • Freemasonry in Boston, Massachusetts, including James G. Barbadoes, met and established the Massachusetts General Colored Association "to promote the welfare...
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    Master for ten years. He also was a founding member of the Massachusetts General Colored Association, and active member and author in the Anti-Slavery movement...
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    Thomas Dalton (abolitionist) (category People from Gloucester, Massachusetts)
    including the Massachusetts General Colored Association, New England Anti-Slavery Society, Boston Mutual Lyceum, and Infant School Association, and campaigned...
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  • original Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts was indeed entitled to Masonic recognition, despite the general tradition of "exclusive jurisdiction"...
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  • discriminatory treatment of black people; became a founder of the Massachusetts General Colored Association, which opposed colonization of free American Black People...
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    Walker Lewis (category African-American history of Massachusetts)
    in 1826, Lewis and Thomas Dalton helped organize the Massachusetts General Colored Association (MGCA), the first such all-black organization in the United...
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  • The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the...
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  • Kentucky slave pen Mason–Dixon Line USS Mason (DE-529) Massachusetts General Colored Association Mass racial violence in the United States M-Base McComas...
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  • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial...
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    Crispus Attucks (category People from Framingham, Massachusetts)
    Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Nell, William C. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, 1855. Parr, James L. & Swope, Kevin...
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    Prince Hall (category People from colonial Massachusetts)
    2013. "MHS Collections Online: Petition of Prince Hall to the Massachusetts General Court, 27 February 1788". www.masshist.org. Retrieved July 24, 2019...
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    Liberty Party (United States, 1840) Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (American) Massachusetts General Colored Association (American) New York Manumission...
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  • Timeline of Boston (category Timelines of cities in Massachusetts)
    business. American Unitarian Association organized and headquartered in city. 1826 Massachusetts General Colored Association and House of Juvenile Reformation...
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    He escaped from slavery at age 33 in May 1850 and reached Boston, Massachusetts, where he became a waiter. Later that year, Congress enacted the Fugitive...
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  • clothing shop owner, who was a well-known, outspoken member of the General Colored Association, also influenced Stewart. (A house at 81 Joy Street where from...
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    Rebecca Lee Crumpler (category Physicians from Massachusetts)
    Crumpler", Hyde Park, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Federal Census, Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1880 "The Colored People's Memorial". The News...
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    William Cooper Nell (category Colored Conventions people)
    the abolitionist movement, having helped to create the Massachusetts General Colored Association in the 1820s. Nell encountered racial discrimination as...
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    United States. Allen passed the bar exam in Maine in 1844 and became a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace in 1847. He moved to South Carolina after the American...
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    Anthony Burns (category Abolitionism in Massachusetts)
    assignments. In 1853, he escaped from slavery and reached the free state of Massachusetts. He started working in Boston. The following year, he was captured under...
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  • Barzillai Lew (category Massachusetts militiamen in the American Revolution)
    Revolution, African Americans from Massachusetts served as freemen or as slaves with their masters in many local militias. General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief...
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    Brattle Street, which existed from 1694 to 1962, was a street in Boston, Massachusetts, located on the current site of City Hall Plaza, at Government Center...
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    Wells (1874). The Rising Sun, or the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race. The Basic Afro-American Reprint Library. Boston, MA: A. G. Brown...
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    Phillips School was a 19th-century school located in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. It is now a private residence. It is on the Black Heritage Trail and...
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    Samuel Chamberlain (category People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War)
    Parole at Annapolis, Maryland, for a time and also commanded the 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry, an all African-American unit, with the rank of colonel...
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    George Latimer (escaped slave) (category People from Lynn, Massachusetts)
    organization of the New England Freedom Association and increased collective action in the black community of Massachusetts. One example of this is the fundraising...
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    Thomas Paul (1773–1831) was a Baptist minister in Boston, Massachusetts, who became the first pastor for the First African Baptist Church, currently known...
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  • Beacon Hill (from 1861 Anderson Street). He joined the Massachusetts General Colored Association that had been set up in 1826. It had the dual aims of...
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    Boston African American National Historic Site (category National Historic Sites in Massachusetts)
    Gould Shaw / 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment Memorial – commemorates the first African-American regiment of the United States Colored Troops during...
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