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Posted inArts and Culture

Bridging the representation gap 

by Martin J. Walsh, Barbara Lee and Catherine Allgor November 15, 2019July 6, 2021

ON NOVEMBER 16, the rebuilt Dana Avenue Bridge in Hyde Park will be renamed in honor of two trailblazing sisters who lived in the neighborhood, the great suffragists and abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimké. This is a perfect moment in a perfect place to recognize two heroic women who sacrificed so much of their own […]

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