Massachusetts – Unfinished

9 Daniels Street and the Polish American Citizens Club

By National Park Service March 23, 2023

Founded in 1916, the Polish American Citizens Club seems to have emerged from older efforts to promote citizenship and naturalization among Salem’s Polish immigrants. With its close ties to religious, fraternal, cultural, military, and other groups in the city, the region, and Polish America in general, it was effective in registering Polish American voters and electing politicians.

Tags club, history, Massachusetts, New England, northeast, Polish, stories, Unfinished 250

National Park Service Article

Black Activism

By National Park Service March 23, 2023

Knowing the history of African Americans in Salem is central to understanding all aspects of life in the city from the seventeenth century up to now.

Tags Abolition, African American heritage, Massachusetts, New England, northeast, Slavery, Unfinished 250

National Park Service Article

Salem’s Maritime Economy of Slavery

By National Park Service March 22, 2023

The links between Salem’s economic and social fabric and the history of slavery in the
broader Atlantic world (including but not limited to the US South) are extensive.

Tags Economy, maritime, maritime heritage, Massachusetts, New England, northeast, Slavery, Unfinished 250

National Park Service Article

New England Woman’s Tea Party

By National Park Service January 8, 2023

In 1873, Lucy Stone spoke in front of a crow of 3,000 individuals at Faneuil Hall. Her words would energize the women’s rights movement not only in Boston, but throughout the United States.

Tags 19th amendment, activism, america250, Boston, Boston National Historical Park, boston tea party, Civil Rights, Faneuil Hall, Lucy Stone, Massachusetts, Political History, protest, suffrage, suffrage map, Unfinished 250, Women's History

National Park Service Article

Italian Americans at Faneuil Hall

By National Park Service December 27, 2021

As the Italian population of Boston grew in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this immigrant group integrated itself into the established Boston community by meeting at Boston’s traditional meeting place: Faneuil Hall.

Tags Boston, European American heritage, Faneuil Hall, immigration, immigration history, Italian Heritage, Massachusetts, Migration and Immigration, Unfinished 250

National Park Service Article

Anger and Opposition to the Stamp Act

By National Park Service October 1, 2021

When news of the Stamp Act reached Bostonians in spring of 1765, they opposed the new tax on paper documents. Reacting through the written word and physical violence, Bostonians played a significant role in the repeal of the Stamp Act before it came in effect.

Tags American Revolution, Boston, colonial America, Colonial Commerce and Industry, Colonial Crafts and Trade, Massachusetts, Revolution 250, Revolutionary War, Stamp Act, Unfinished 250