We had the best time at the Mass Coalition’s Chester Square Neighborhood Festival this weekend! We saw many old friends and new faces who were eager to updates hear about the League's restoration and history in Boston. Fun time! #SouthEnd #communitty #Boston #Preservation

Cast stone restoration loading! This week we saw multiple samples of cast stone to determine the best match for the natural brownstone. Stone by stone, our headquarters at 558 Massachusetts Ave is coming back! #Preservation #Boston #BlackHistory

Great time hosting committee members from the Henderson Foundation and Legacy Funds @LWCSBoston this afternoon! It was a inquisitive, thoughtful and super friendly group!#Preservation #BlackHistory #Boston #HERstory

Congratulations to the 2025 Sarah-Ann Shaw/Maria L. Baldwin Scholarship Award Winners! #thefutureisbright👩🏽‍🎓😎💐

An early a member of a youth group at @lwcsboston.bsky.social in the mid-1920s!

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Honored to present about the legacy of the US Black women’s club movement, “A Broad Band of Sisterhood: the Women’s Era and The League of Women for Community Service,” at the Chicago Women’s History conference this weekend. #womenshistorymonth #HerStory #LWCSArchive #Boston #Chicago #blackhistory

Rest in Power 🙏🏽❤️✊🏾 #womenshistorymonth

Pioneers of Black musical theater! 🎶 Anna Madah & Emma Louise Hyers, known as the "the Hyers Sisters," broke barriers with groundbreaking plays like "Out of Bondage." Aligned with writer #PaulineHopkins, their voices & stories paved the way for generations. #WomensHistoryMonth #MusicalTheater

From #Boston Latin School to the battlefields of Word War I, Addie Waites Hunton's life was a testament to courage and activism. Born in 1866, Hutton became an educator, suffragist, YMCA staff-assigned World War I worker and NAACP leader. #WomensHistoryMonth #CivilRights #Suffrage #LWCSArchive

A child prodigy from NH, Helen Eugenia Hagan became the 1st Black woman to earn a Yale Music degree in 1912. She composed a stunning Piano Concerto and was a dedicated WWII entertainer. Her legacy of scholarship, service and musical genius lives on! #WommensHistoryMonth #WomenInMusic #YaleMusic

Incredibly proud to host the phenomenal @kcarterjackson.bsky.social last night the Boston Athenaeum for a SOLD out audience! 🔥💕✊🏾

This was so terrific! #skystorians should check out all that @lwcsboston.bsky.social is doing in historic preservation of both a building and an organizational legacy!

Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia reigned from 1916 to 1930. She was the 1st modern-era female head of a nation in Africa. A conservative, she promoted the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, built numerous churches and temples, ended slavery there and led the Empire into the League of Nations. #BlackHistoryMonth

The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Florence Mills' talents blossomed after a move to Harlem. Her song “I’m a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird” from the show 'Dixie to Broadway' was seen as an anthem for racial equality—the "bluebird" represented freedom & happiness. #BlackHistorymonth

Fighting in a segregated army in Puerto Rico, the all-Black Company L served with the 6th Mass. Regimental Nat'l Guard in the Spanish-America War of 1898. The men suffered from diseases like malaria & yellow fever⁠ despite erroneous beliefs then that Black troops were immune. #BlackHistoryMonth

William Pickens (born in 1881 to formerly enslaved parents in South Carolina) was a Yale alum, author, educator, & member of the NAACP & the US Department of the Treasury. His daughter Harriet Pickens became an officer in the US Navy in 1944.

After escaping bondage, Lewis & Harriet Hayden came to #Boston & became the center of the abolition movement there, forcefully protecting freedom seekers in their Beacon Hill home. Upon death, their entire estate went to an endowed education scholarship for Black ppl. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive

As a young student, Maritcha Lyons (b. 1848), testified before the Rhode Island State Legislature for her right to attend school - as an adult she fought for racial justice & gender equality as an educator & founder of the Woman’s Loyal Union of New York.

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began dancing in saloons at 6. A tap dancer known for his elegance, he became the top paid Black entertainer in the US in the 1st half of the 20th century, often performing w/ Shirley Temple. Despite racist roles, he transformed his art form #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive

Eva B. Dykes attended M Street H.S. School and went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from @HowardU in 1914. Required to get another B.A. from @Harvard to achieve a masters, she earned both by 1917. In 1921, she became the 1st Black woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive

In 1911, Addison Scurlock opened Scurlock Photographic Studio in Wash. DC. He & his sons would build one of the top Black photo studios in the U.S. Known for portraiture, he is famous for depicting Black life in DC, W.E.B. DuBois & Marian Anderson on Lincoln Memorial. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive

Born to an enslaved woman and her master, Victoria E. Matthews found new beginnings in NYC where she got an education working as a maid. She became a journalist, fiction writer & an activist who fought for the well-being of Black women migrants from the South with support services #BlackHistoryMonth

Son of a poet & an engineer, Allan Crite was a long-time resident of #Boston's South End neighborhood. An @SMFAatTufts grad, his art often showed daily life in the Black community. Highly awarded, @LWCSBoston & @museummodernart.bsky.social hosted exhibits on his work #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive

My first illustration is of Diahann Carroll in the tv show Julia (1968-1971). She was the first Black actress to star in her own TV series where she didn't play a domestic worker. She was a young widow raising a 5 year old son in a nice apartment while working as a nurse. #bhm #blackhistorymonth

Inspiring time this morning at the MLK Memorial Breakfast with iconic Civil Rights Leader Angela Davis. " We are strong and on the right side of history."

Sending warm wishes for a holiday season filled with love, happiness, and cherished moments with family and friends. ❤️

Charlotta Bass (b. 1874 in SC) published a newspaper from 1912 to 1951. She challenged discrimination in housing, hiring, & policing. The Klan stalked her & sued her for libel, but she won in court. She was nominated for Vice President 1952. The US National Park Service calls her an American hero.

Amazing night of presentations with @nu_africanastudies Black Feminism Studies Service Learning course & the incomparable @reineayiti. Thanks to our wonderful students who studied & created accessible learning material on the powerful women affiliated @lwcsboston! #blackfeminism #knowledgeispower

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