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Blake Park: History of a Brookline Neighborhood
Two Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in Service to the Town
The Brookline Reservoir & the Cochituate Aqueduct
Friends of the Old Burying Ground
The Peabody Sisters in Brookline and Beyond
The Historical Stained Glass Treasures of the First Parish Church
Life & Legacy of John Wilson
The History of Commonwealth Avenue: Ghosts and Shadows of Boston's Automobile Row
At Home with H. H. Richardson
Race, Class, and Immigration
Slavery and Freedom in Brookline
Hidden Brookline
Hidden Brookline Committee
John Pierce and the Issues of Slavery and Abolition
1993 address to the Brookline Historical Society by David Johnson, Minister, First Parish Church
Brookline in the Anti-Slavery Movement
An 1899 BHS publication
Lights in the Darkness
Beginning on page 3 of the fall 1994 BHS newsletter, a detailed review of both enslaved people and slave holders living in Brookline
Anti-Slave-Law Days in Brookline
An account of abolitionist efforts from the 1978 Proceedings
Edward Devotion & the Former Devotion School: A Chronology
Edward Devotion was a slaveholder who allocated funds in his will for the town's schools
Topics in Race & Ethnicity
Florida Ruffin Ridley
A video presentation made for Brookline Strong about Florida Ruffin Ridley and the legacy of activism in several generations of her extended family.
Thomas Aspinwall Davis, Amos Lawrence, and Brookline Racial Covenants
Ken Liss, Brookline Historical Society
Ken Liss investigates the misidentified racially-restrictive covenant that was attached to a Brookline property deed
Immigration
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Heritage Quest Online
(Requires Brookline Library Card to Sign In)
Ancestry Library (At the Brookline Public Library - In Library Use Only)
Mass. Passenger Manifest (1848-1891)