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Article: REVIVING THE SPIRIT AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE TO REOPEN AFTER REPAIRS
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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To 19th century abolitionists, it was the birthplace of the
movement.
To black children banned from Boston's schools, it was a seat
of learning.
To Dorothea L. Powell, a 61-year-old black Boston native, "It
is our Statue of Liberty on Beacon Hill."
The African Meeting House, the oldest standing black church in
America, stirs a special feeling in many people who have gazed at
its weathered brick facade and marched back in time after crossing
the threshhold.
"I couldn't quite identify with the Statue of Liberty in New
York," said Powell, who is the National Park Service's site
manager for the meeting house. "But this meeting house -- this
church," she said, correcting herself, "is ...