Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Time: 7:00pm – 8:15pm
Location: Druker Auditorium (Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton)
Registration encouraged: here (walk-ins also welcome)

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Many of us learn about school desegregation in the context of the mid-twentieth-century South: Brown v. Board of Education, Ruby Bridges, and the Little Rock Nine. Yet a century before that, young Black women in Massachusetts led the fight for equal school rights—the right of all to a quality education on an equal basis. This lecture examines the lives of young Black women whose activism reshaped public education in the Bay State. 

Presenter: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner, Northeastern University