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Take a walk with us and get to know the women who helped shape Boston. 

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Abiel Smith School/Museum of African American History, Sue Bailey Thurman and Ruth Batson

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

African Meeting House

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

African Meeting House

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Amanda Melvina Lougee

Hyde Park•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Anna Harris Smith (1843 – 1929)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Anne Hutchinson Statue

Downtown•
17th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Armeda Gibbs, Isabel Hyams, and Sarah Hyams

East Boston•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Boston Women’s Trade Union League

Chinatown•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Cedar Grove Cemetery—Home for Aged Colored Women Gravesites

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Chauncy Hall: MA Woman Suffrage Association

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Church of the Covenant, The Women’s Lunch Place

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Religion

Dorchester North Burying Ground: Ann & Betty

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
18th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Elizabeth Hedge Webster

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Fanny Goldstein and Old West Church

West End•
19th Century
Education

Federal Street Church

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Franklin Place and Home of Judith Sargent Murray

Downtown•
18th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Geraldine Pindell Trotter (1872 – 1918)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Grace Lonergan Lorch (1903 – 1974)

Southern Dorchester•
20th Century
Education

Harriet Hayden, Ellen Craft, Hayden House

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Harriet Hemenway and the Massachusetts Audubon Society

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Harriet Tubman House Site

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Harriet Tubman Square Statues: Emancipation by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Step on Board by Fern Cunningham

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Hayden House, Ellen Craft, Harriet Hayden

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Holocaust Memorial

Downtown•
20th Century
Religion

Home for Aged Colored Women

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Corita Kent

Back Bay East•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Ednah Dow Cheney

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Elizabeth Kearney Blood

West End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Ella Little-Collins

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Ellen Swepson Jackson

Roxbury•
20th Century
Education

Home of Estella Crosby

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Golde Bamber

Roxbury•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Helen Morton

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Julia Ward Howe

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Louisa May Alcott

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Louisa May Alcott

West End•
19th Century
Arts & Culture

Home of Lucy Miller Mitchell

Roxbury•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Margaret Fuller and School

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Rose Finkelstein Norwood

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Sarah-Ann Shaw

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Susan Paul

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Susan Walker FitzGerald

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Home of Susie King Taylor

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union

Back Bay West•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Isabel Hayes Chapin Barrows (1845 – 1913)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Florida Ruffin Ridley, and The Woman’s Era Club

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Judith Winsor Smith

East Boston•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Judith Winsor Smith

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Kip Tiernan Memorial

Back Bay West•
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Kittie Knox

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Lucy Stone

Jamaica Plain•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Lucy Stone (1818 – 1893) & Alice Stone Blackwell (1857 – 1950)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Maria Miller Stewart Plaque

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Marker at Home Site of Zipporah Potter Atkins

North End•
17th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Dyer Statue

Downtown•
17th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Eliza Mahoney

West End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Hannah Hanchett Hunt (1830 – 1906)

Dorchester: Upham's Corner•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mary Mildred Williams

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Maverick Street Mothers

East Boston•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Mehitable Ewins Sunderland

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Melnea Cass – Cass House

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Muriel Snowden: Freedom House

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Museum of African American History and Abiel Smith School

Beacon Hill•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Myrna Vazquez and Villa Victoria Center

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Park Square: Women Editors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Chinatown•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Phillis Wheatley Landing Place

Chinatown•
18th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Protest Meetings and Faneuil Hall

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Rose Finkelstein Norwood 40 Howland Street

Roxbury•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Sarah Parker Remond and The Howard Athenæum

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Site of Denison House

Chinatown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Site of Women’s Educational and Industrial Union

Chinatown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

South End House Site

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Statues of Women Dissenters: Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson

Beacon Hill•
17th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Susan Fessenden (1840 – 1932)

Southern Dorchester•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The League of Women for Community Service

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The Massachusetts State House

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The Museum of NCAAA

Roxbury•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

The Women’s Service Club of Boston

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Tremont Temple Women Lecturers

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Union United Methodist Church

South End•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Villa Victoria Cultural Center, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) and Paula Oyola, Latina activist

South End•
20th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Virginia Isaacs Trotter

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Woman’s Journal and 9 to 5 Office Workers’ Union

Downtown•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Women Vote: March 7, 1870

Hyde Park•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Florence Hope Luscomb and Emily Greene Balch

Back Bay East•
19th Century
Abolition, Civil Rights, Social Activism

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