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		D13: Sarah Parker Remond and the Howard Athenæum Pemberton Square (formerly Scollay Square) Sarah Parker Remond, the grand-daughter of a free black who fought in the American Revolution, committed her first act of public resistance at the Howard Athenæum. In 1853, Remond, who lived in Salem, had purchased tickets by mail for a performance at the Howard. When she arrived, the theater would not seat her in the seats she had paid for but, instead, made her sit in the segregated gallery. She refused, departed, and later sued the theater, winning $500 in damages. Remond went on to become an international anti-slavery lecturer. The Howard Athenæum was opened in 1846 with the first cushioned theater seats in Boston. It was a fashionable theater, playing opera and drama until 1870 when it turned to vaudeville. The building was demolished in 1962.
		D14: Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, and Brattle Square City Hall Plaza, Cambridge Street The Boston City Hall Plaza covers the same ground as the 18th century Brattle Square. From 1768 to 1771, Abigail Adams (1744-1817) lived in two locations in and near Brattle Square with her husband, attorney John Adams, and their family. It was a period of increasing family responsibilities for her. Her five children were born between 1765 and 1772. The family lived there during the Boston Massacre, which took place nearby - just outside the Old State House - in 1770. After John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers involved in the incident, his health declined. The family moved back to their farm in Braintree (now Quincy) the following year, but returned to Boston in 1772. They were in Boston during the Boston Tea Party in 1773, but by 1774 the Adamses had moved back to the farm permanently because John began traveling for the new republic - first as a delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Abigail Adams became well known as a critical thinker and correspondent with her husband, who was away from the farm for much of the next ten years. She managed the farm, their large family, and their financial affairs. Among her correspondents was philosopher and writer Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), who published in 1805 a three-volume history of the American Revolution. "If peace and unanimity are cherished, and the equalization of liberty, and the equity and energy of law, maintained by harmony and justice, the present representative government may stand for ages a luminous monument of republican wisdom, virtue and integrity. The principles of the revolution ought ever to be the pole-star of the statesman ... not only for the benefit of existing society, but with an eye to that fidelity which is due posterity." -- Mercy Otis Warren
		D15: Holocaust Memorial Carmen Park Dozens of prominent Boston women were involved in planning and funding the New England Holocaust Memorial, some of them survivors of Nazi concentration camps who have found new lives in Boston. The Memorial was dedicated in October 1995 to foster the memory of, and reflection on, one of the great tragedies of modern times. The Memorial features six luminous glass towers etched with six million numbers to remind visitors of those who perished during the Holocaust, or Shoah, from 1933-1945. In total, the Memorial honors all eleven million people who perished because of their race, religion, nationality, physical disability or sexual preference, as well as those who courageously aided death camp survivors. The Memorial's dedication includes the words, "... know that wherever prejudice, discrimination and victimization are tolerated, evil like the Holocaust can happen again."