The William C. Nell House, now a private residence, was a boarding home located in 3 Smith Court in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts...
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William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an American abolitionist, journalist, publisher, author, and civil servant of Boston, Massachusetts...
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long-time mistress of King Charles II of England (c. April 1668 – 6 February 1685). Called "pretty, witty Nell" by Pepys, she has been regarded as a living...
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lead a commission for the preservation of deer in the area. Historian William C. Nell reported an 1860 letter from a Natick resident, also printed in an...
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Lewis Herndon, called "Nell," was born in the town of Culpeper Court House, Virginia on August 30, 1837, the daughter of William Lewis Herndon and Frances...
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Prince Hall (c. 1735/8 – December 7, 1807) was an American abolitionist and leader in the free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry...
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Nell Gwynn House is a ten-storey residential building in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, designed in the Art Deco style by G. Kay Green. Completed in 1937...
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Associates", Social Science History, Volume 28, Number 3, pp. 383–385. William H. Upton, Negro Masonry, (New York: AMS Press, 1975). Prince Hall Masonry...
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Trotman, C. James (2002). Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities. Indiana University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-253-21487-4. Davis, William Thomas (1895)...
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Nell Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American actress and singer. Carter began her career in 1970, singing...
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Ruby Bridges (redirect from Ruby Nell Bridges)
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only...
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for two years and left due to poor treatment. Burns was next leased by William Brent. Brent was the husband of a rich young woman, and lived off her wealth...
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societies for African American women, were named after her. Her Joy Street house in Beacon Hill is a stop on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. In 1831,...
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notable residents of 3 Smith Court are William Cooper Nell and James Scott, both involved in the abolitionist cause. Nell was an author and considered one of...
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Intelligence Society in April 1832. Although her speeches were controversial William Lloyd Garrison, a friend and the central figure of the abolitionist movement...
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Latimer was born in Norfolk, Virginia. His father, Samuel Mitchell Latimer (c.1797-1875), was of a white, slave owning household, of Elizabeth City, Virginia...
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Pinckney Street – Resident P.P.F. Degrand 3 Smith Court – residence of William Cooper Nell, African American abolitionist, author and historian Tremont Street...
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Cornwells Heights-Eddington, Pennsylvania William C. Nell House – Boston, Massachusetts Harriet Beecher Stowe House – Brunswick, Maine Liberty Farm – Worcester...
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actuated by the principles of equity and juſtice, we cannot but expect your houſe will again take our deplorable caſe into ſerious consideration, and give...
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Shadrach Minkins (c. 1814 – December 13, 1875) was an African-American fugitive slave from Virginia who escaped in 1850 and reached Boston. He also used...
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1858 Volume XXVIII No. 11 [2nd page] Cols 3. Accessed June 14, 2019 Nell, William C. (1885). The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. Robert F...
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The elected officers were Thomas Dalton (abolitionist), President William Guion Nell, Vice President James George Barbadoes, Secretary. One of their most...
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Cambridge School Committee. William and Fred opened a successful dry-cleaning and dyeing business in Lowell. In 1874, William married Isabell Delaney of...
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major political issue in Massachusetts. With Joshua Bowen Smith and William Cooper Nell, he was prominent in the movement to desegregate the Boston public...
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William Craft during their stay in Boston. On February 15, 1851, Smith was one of the activists who helped free Shadrach Minkins from the court house...
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William H. Simpson (c.1818 – 1872) was an African American artist and civil right activist in the 19th century, known for his portraits. William Simpson...
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Wesley, Dorothy Porter; Uzelac, Constance Porter, eds. (2002). William Cooper Nell, nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, historian, integrationist:...
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also within the Boston African American National Historic Site. William Cooper Nell Boston African American National Historic Site: Abiel Smith School...
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old. King Charles II had accepted that Burford was his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn, an actress, and awarded him the dukedom just as he had conferred those...
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precursor to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Morris, Thomas Dalton, and William Cooper Nell argued the importance of integration in Boston schools: "It is very...
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