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20th Century in the United States

  • About
  • Columbia Point
    • An Evolving City
    • The Columbia Point Housing Project, 1954-1986
    • UMass Boston: The 'Final' Step in Developing Boston
    • A Redeveloped Penninsula: The 1980s Onward
    • Future Plans and Further Reading
    • Pedagogy - Boston in the 20th Century
  • Masquerading Gals
    • Terminology
    • General Findings
    • 1940s
    • 1950s
    • Early 1960s
    • Personal LGBTQ+ Accounts
    • Revealing Boston's Queer Homes: Digitizing Historic Apartment Blueprints
    • Bibliography
    • Events
    • About the author
  • Housing and Reproduction
    • Reproductive Justice
    • Traveling Back: Understanding the Roots
    • "We Do Not Live Single Issue Lives"
    • Bibliography and Continued Reading
  • Black Women's Labor
    • Census Information
    • Records
    • Christobel Carey
    • Marion Hall
    • Mary Louise Wallace
    • Melnea Agnes Cass
    • Further Reading and Sources

Projects on the Site

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Black Women's Labor
in 1920 Boston
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Colombia Point
A Boston History
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Masquerading Gals and Subway Sammies
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Desegregating Boston Schools
in the 1970s
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2008 Reproductive and Housing Justice
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