Behind the Scenes at the BPL: Bailey Watroba, Senior Public Relations Associate

Meet Bailey Watroba, Senior Public Relations Associate in the Communications Department! This post is part of our "Behind the Scenes at the BPL" blog series featuring just some of the humans that keep Boston Public Library running. Where are you from? I was born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area. I go back and…
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Black History Boston: William Monroe Trotter and the Fight Against “The Birth of a Nation”

When W. H. Whaley approached the front of the crowd at Faneuil Hall, nearly 1,500 people—both Black and white—cheered him on.1 Not a lot united Boston across color lines in 1915, but the events at the Tremont Theater that past Saturday rallied Black people and poor white people alike. Whaley, a Black lawyer originally from…
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