• The pulpit, floor, and pews in the African Meeting House. The Meeting House was a baptist church and central part of the struggle for freedom and justice from not only slavery, but for civil rights, prior to the American Civil War.

    Boston African American

    National Historic Site Massachusetts

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Attorney John Rock

Abolitionist/ Doctor/ Lawyer John S. Rock called the North Slope of Beacon Hill home. Rock would become the first African American permitted to practice law in front of the Supreme Court in 1865.