Boston Mutual Lyceum
| Formation | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Founder | William Cooper Nell |
| Type | Lyceum |
| Location |
|
Region served | Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
President | Dudley Tidd |
1st Vice President | Joel W. Lewis |
2nd Vice President | Sarah H. Annible |
Boston Mutual Lyceum was an African American lyceum organization[1] founded in 1833.[2]
Organization[edit]
It included women and had a female vice-president. Two of five managers were also women.[2] The Adelphic Union was an African American literary society in Boston at the same time.[3]
Officers were: Dudley Tidd, president; Joel W. Lewis, 1st vice-president; Sarah H. Annible, 2nd vice-president; Nath Cutler, secretary; and Thomas Dalton, treasurer. Managers were Joseph H. Gover, John B. Cutler, Henry Carroll, Lucy V. Lew, and Mary Williams. Josiah Holbrook helped organize the group.[1]
Tidd was a laborer[4] who became a property owner along with Dalton, who had been a bootblack.
The abolitionist newspaper The Liberator published by William Lloyd Garrison published a brief notice of the formation of the group listing its officers and managers.[5]
A Lew family history is known and she may have become Thomas Dalton's wife, known as Lucy Lew Dalton. Lucy Lew Dalton is part of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The Abolitionist". Garrison and Knapp. December 5, 1833 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Yellin, Jean Fagan; Horne, John C. Van (May 31, 2018). The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501711428 – via Google Books.
- ^ Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. (December 5, 1999). Black Bostonians: family life and community struggle in the antebellum North. Holmes & Meier. ISBN 9780841913790 – via Google Books.
- ^ Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. (December 5, 1999). Black Bostonians: family life and community struggle in the antebellum North. Holmes & Meier. ISBN 9780841913806 – via Google Books.
- ^ http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1833/08/31/the-liberator-03-35.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Charlestown". bwht.org.
 | This article related to Boston is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
.jpg){kind=small} | This African American–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |