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December 2020 Virtual Experiences

Boston By Foot will host a pair of virtual lectures during December. Please see below for specific dates and descriptions.

Those interested in attending must register in advance using the links below. Members should use their special access code that can be entered into Eventbrite to unlock a special, no-cost member ticket.

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WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER AND THE BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT

Virtual Lecture

William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) links the abolitionist Boston of Frederick Douglass to the rhetorically rich time of the Boston-educated Dr. Martin Luther King, Trotter stands tall, proud, and erect in a no-apology, fully American position grounded in the earth of Monticello, from whence his maternal forebears came. A firebrand newspaper editor, Trotter was an international proponent of Black Lives Matter, well before the term was coined. In the 21st century, Trotter is receiving much-deserved political appreciation and prominence. In 2017, the award-winning documentary film, Birth of a Movement, paid homage to Trotter's brave crusade, in Boston Common and at the Tremont Theater, against the pro-lynching film, The Birth of a Nation, which birthed Hollywood. At the start of 2020, Random House published Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge.

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EVOLUTION OF A MARKETPLACE

Virtual Lecture

In 1976, the sesquicentennial celebration of the opening of Quincy Market, Walter Muir Whitehill, noted Boston historian and advocate for preservation, described Quincy Market as “the finest architectural composition surviving in the United States.” We will take a look at this iconic landmark from its storied beginning as a 19th century urban renewal project through to its current place in the heart of historic Boston.

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