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The League of Women for Community Service
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One of the oldest continuing Black women's service organizations in the United States. Please consider a donation today! http://lwcsboston.org/donate #Preservation #Boston #HERstory #Blackhistory #LWCSArchive
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Sep 30
We had the best time at the Mass Coalition’s Chester Square Neighborhood Festival this weekend! We saw many old friends and new faces who were eager to updates hear about the League's restoration and history in Boston. Fun time! #SouthEnd #communitty #Boston #Preservation
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Jul 25
Cast stone restoration loading! This week we saw multiple samples of cast stone to determine the best match for the natural brownstone. Stone by stone, our headquarters at 558 Massachusetts Ave is coming back! #Preservation #Boston #BlackHistory
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · May 31
Great time hosting committee members from the Henderson Foundation and Legacy Funds @LWCSBoston this afternoon! It was a inquisitive, thoughtful and super friendly group!#Preservation #BlackHistory #Boston #HERstory
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · May 17
Congratulations to the 2025 Sarah-Ann Shaw/Maria L. Baldwin Scholarship Award Winners! #thefutureisbright👩🏽‍🎓😎💐
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Apr 28
An early a member of a youth group at @lwcsboston.bsky.social in the mid-1920s!
proenzacoles.bsky.social Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · Apr 27
Lois Mailou Jones (b. 1905 in Boston) artist, educator, mentor, recipient of awards & honors, exhibited her art nationally & internationally & served on Howard University’s art faculty for nearly 50 years. She was honored at the White House in 1980 for outstanding achievements in the arts.
Black and white photo of a woman painting at an easel, there is a kitten balanced on her shoulder watching her paint.
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Apr 28
Yes! Lois Mailou Jones was part of a youth program @lwcsboston.bsky.social. She is featured in the center with the dark shirt.
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Apr 19
SUPPORT @lwcsboston.bsky.social Boston Marathon Running Team! 👟🎽🥇 #charity #BostonMarathon #BostonStrong
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Mike's Running the 2025 Boston Marathon!
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Apr 19
SUPPORT @lwcsboston.bsky.social Boston Marathon Running Team! 👟🎽🥇 #charity #BostonMarathon #BostonStrong

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Belle's Running the 2025 Boston Marathon!
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 28
Thank you @baystatebanner.bsky.social! #WomensHistoryMontth #LWCSBoston
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League of Women for Community Service looks to the next 100 years of helping Black Bostonians – The Bay State Banner
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 24
Honored to present about the legacy of the US Black women’s club movement, “A Broad Band of Sisterhood: the Women’s Era and The League of Women for Community Service,” at the Chicago Women’s History conference this weekend. #womenshistorymonth #HerStory #LWCSArchive #Boston #Chicago #blackhistory
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 21
Rest in Power 🙏🏽❤️✊🏾 #womenshistorymonth
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 20
Pioneers of Black musical theater! 🎶 Anna Madah & Emma Louise Hyers, known as the "the Hyers Sisters," broke barriers with groundbreaking plays like "Out of Bondage." Aligned with writer #PaulineHopkins, their voices & stories paved the way for generations. #WomensHistoryMonth #MusicalTheater
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 18
From #Boston Latin School to the battlefields of Word War I, Addie Waites Hunton's life was a testament to courage and activism. Born in 1866, Hutton became an educator, suffragist, YMCA staff-assigned World War I worker and NAACP leader. #WomensHistoryMonth #CivilRights #Suffrage #LWCSArchive
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 13
A child prodigy from NH, Helen Eugenia Hagan became the 1st Black woman to earn a Yale Music degree in 1912. She composed a stunning Piano Concerto and was a dedicated WWII entertainer. Her legacy of scholarship, service and musical genius lives on! #WommensHistoryMonth #WomenInMusic #YaleMusic
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Mar 6
Incredibly proud to host the phenomenal @kcarterjackson.bsky.social last night the Boston Athenaeum for a SOLD out audience! 🔥💕✊🏾
kcarterjackson.bsky.social Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson.bsky.social · Mar 6
Had the best time last night at the Boston Anthenaum speaking about #WeRefuse and raising funds for the @lwcsboston.bsky.social
For those who don't know The League of Women for Community Service is what I call an institution of refusal. They are doing the Lord's work and I love it! Please support!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · Feb 28
This was so terrific! #skystorians should check out all that @lwcsboston.bsky.social is doing in historic preservation of both a building and an organizational legacy!
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 24
Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia reigned from 1916 to 1930. She was the 1st modern-era female head of a nation in Africa. A conservative, she promoted the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, built numerous churches and temples, ended slavery there and led the Empire into the League of Nations. #BlackHistoryMonth
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 20
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Florence Mills' talents blossomed after a move to Harlem. Her song “I’m a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird” from the show 'Dixie to Broadway' was seen as an anthem for racial equality—the "bluebird" represented freedom & happiness. #BlackHistorymonth
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 18
Fighting in a segregated army in Puerto Rico, the all-Black Company L served with the 6th Mass. Regimental Nat'l Guard in the Spanish-America War of 1898. The men suffered from diseases like malaria & yellow fever⁠ despite erroneous beliefs then that Black troops were immune. #BlackHistoryMonth
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · Feb 17
William Pickens (born in 1881 to formerly enslaved parents in South Carolina) was a Yale alum, author, educator, & member of the NAACP & the US Department of the Treasury. His daughter Harriet Pickens became an officer in the US Navy in 1944.
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 14
After escaping bondage, Lewis & Harriet Hayden came to #Boston & became the center of the abolition movement there, forcefully protecting freedom seekers in their Beacon Hill home. Upon death, their entire estate went to an endowed education scholarship for Black ppl. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · Feb 12
As a young student, Maritcha Lyons (b. 1848), testified before the Rhode Island State Legislature for her right to attend school - as an adult she fought for racial justice & gender equality as an educator & founder of the Woman’s Loyal Union of New York.
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 12
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 12
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began dancing in saloons at 6. A tap dancer known for his elegance, he became the top paid Black entertainer in the US in the 1st half of the 20th century, often performing w/ Shirley Temple. Despite racist roles, he transformed his art form #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
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The League of Women for Community Service @lwcsboston.bsky.social · Feb 10
Eva B. Dykes attended M Street H.S. School and went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from @HowardU in 1914. Required to get another B.A. from @Harvard to achieve a masters, she earned both by 1917. In 1921, she became the 1st Black woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. #BlackHistoryMonth #LWCSArchive
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