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Article: Meeting house fetes 200 years of service to black community
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2006
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The words belonged to Frederick Douglass, who spoke them almost a
century and a half ago as he rallied abolitionists in Boston after a
mob invaded an antislavery meeting: "After all the arguments for
liberty to which Boston has listened for more than a quarter of a
century, has she yet to learn that the time to assert a right is the
time when the right itself is called into question and that the men
to assert it are the men to whom the right has been denied?"
Yesterday, it was the incoming governor, the first black person to
be elected to the office in the Bay State, who spoke. Reading
excerpts of a Douglass speech, Deval L. Patrick helped to launch the
200th anniversary celebration of ...