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In 1980, the United States Congress established Boston African American NHS(BOAF)in partnership with the Musuem of African American History(MAAH).

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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns."-J.M. Clark

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."-Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Basketball star

Today in 1787 Prince Hall petitions the state legislature for equal schools in Boston

"Never confuse knowledge with wisdom. By wisdom I mean wrestling with how to live."-Cornel West, Philosopher and Activist

"The ladies of Virginia and Maryland have been, as a rule, fiercer in their secessionism than the men."-Harper's Weekly

Today in 1999 Wilt Chamberlain, a Hall of Fame African American basketball player, dies

John Brown’s Boston Saturday October 13th at Noon Meet at Samuel Adams Statue at Faneuil Hall In commemoration...

"We have not participated in warfare upon [the South's] constitutional rights or upon their domestic institutions."-Fernando Wood

The class rank of Union General Philip Sheridan upon his graduation from West Point in 1853: 34

"Our future lies chiefly in our own hands."-Paul Robeson, 1898-1976, Singer and Activist

"In the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow...

"Freedom, in the larger and higher sense, every man must gain for himself."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

John Brown’s Boston Saturday October 13th at Noon Meet at Samuel Adams Statue at Faneuil Hall In commemoration...

"Freedom is never given; it is won."-A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979, Labor leader

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