by Susan | Jan 20, 2020 | Monuments
Asa Philip Randolph (1889 – 1979) was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African American labor...
by Susan | Jun 10, 2019 | Monuments
A Quaker at a time when Quakers were banned from Massachusetts, Dyer was eventually hanged for her insistence on religious liberty in the English colony. The statue by Sylvia Shaw Judson went up in 1959 at a descendant’s bequest. It’s diagonally across...
by Susan | Aug 6, 2018 | Monuments
Wendell Phillips was a Boston lawyer who, in 1835, after hearing an impassioned speech by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, abandoned his practice and devoted the rest of his life to fighting slavery and other civil rights causes, including the rights of native...
by Susan | Feb 15, 2016 | Monuments
Building for Peace was a recognized club of the Brandeis Student Union whose mission was to construct a peace monument on campus that would serve as a physical testament to the universality of peace and the diversity at the university. The club was comprised of the...
