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Hebrew Industrial School Baldwin Place One of the locations of the Hebrew Industrial School, founded for girls in 1889, was next to the North Bennet Street Industrial School. It was later named for Jewish activist Lina Hecht (1848-1920). At a time when nearly a third of the North End's population was Jewish, the school was established to train Jewish women in needlework skills. Anxious to teach their own youth, the Hebrew Ladies' Sewing Society donated cloth and sewing machines for classes in millinery, hand sewing, power sewing, and pattern cutting. The school became Hecht Neighborhood House in 1922 in a different place and moved to Dorchester in 1936 where it served the community for another thirty years. |
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Universalist Meeting House 332 Hanover Street (now the North End Community Center) Writer Judith Sargent Murray, an advocate for women's equality, attended Boston's first Universalist meeting house at this site when she moved to Boston in 1794 (see D24). Her husband, John Murray, an early Universalist preacher, served here as pastor from 1793 until 1809 when he suffered a stroke. Among the progressive ideas preached here was the equality of male and female souls -- not unlike views espoused years earlier by Anne Hutchinson (see D1) and Mary Dyer (see D2). In her writing, Murray used her theological knowledge to challenge the legitimacy of the centuries-old "Fall of Eve" myth and its damaging effect on views about women. |
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St. Leonard's Street Hanover Street, between North Bennet and Prince Streets St. Leonard's Church was the first Roman Catholic Church founded by Italian immigrants in Boston. Built in 1873, St. Leonard's was restored in 1988. Women were prominent in the drive which raised more than a million dollars for the project. Their names are included on the tablets in the church's Peace Garden. |
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