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Article: Governor-elect takes to the stage at African Meeting House 200th anniversary celebration
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
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- December 5, 2006
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TOMORROW THE MUSEUM OF African American History will celebrate history by making it.
Massachusetts' first black governor-elect, Deval Patrick, will help kick off the year-long bicentennial celebration of the nation's oldest still-standing African Meeting House at the Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street, at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The festive evening will feature readings of historic works that were first spoken at the African Meeting House, ranging from those by abolitionist Frederick Douglass to United States Senator Edward Brooke, the first and only black man to represent the Commonwealth in the U.S. Senate, said Tracy Gibbs, museum spokesman. In addition to his ...