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Chinatown Community Mural, Unity and Community 4 Oak Street  In
this 40' mural, Chinese-American women are honored for their many roles in Asian-American
community life. Designed by Wen-Ti Tsen and David Fichter in 1986, the colorful
painting shows a woman garment worker sewing a long piece of fabric which weaves
through the composition and represents women's contribution to the cohesiveness
of the community. Before the liberalization of immigration laws, fewer than
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C11: Chinese Cultural Institute 276 Tremont Street Art historian Doris C.J. Chu founded the art gallery of the Chinese Cultural Institute in 1980 to promote racial harmony through cultural understanding and to stimulate interest in Chinese history, philosophy, literature, and art. The Institute displays Chinese art and offers Chinese plays, concerts, lectures, and workshops. In 1998, the center opened a new theater with a play written by Chu called That Gentleman from China, based on a true story of Chinese immigration. |
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C12: Boston Women's Trade Union League 5 Boylston Place ![Julia O'Connor [Parker]](images/julia_parker.gif) During the Great Depression, the Boston Women's Trade Union League maintained offices and a soup kitchen in this building owned and occupied on the upper floors by Boston's exclusive Tavern Club for men. Soon after the National WTUL was established at Faneuil Hall in 1903, the Boston branch assisted women workers in forming trade unions and aiding strikes, including the telephone operators' strike of 1919 (see C3). Although upper middle class women reformers began the BWTUL, women workers joined and held major offices. Among the presidents were telephone operators Julia O'Connor [Parker] (see C3) and Rose Finkelstein Norwood (1891-1980). For 50 years they also helped organize Boston library workers, retail clerks, and office cleaners.
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