Episode notes
Jill Sim looks at family connections to Boston Brahmin religious circles, and a segregated church culture during the period of rapid change given by immigration waves to Boston.
Within the complexities of a family’ of color’s tenuous standing in the shifting society, anti-Catholic and Irish sentiments simmer beneath ardent values of equity.
Keywords
Anita Hemmings
African Americans
Rev. Phillips Brooks
Trinity Church, Boston
Irish Immigration
Black Boston
George Thomas Downing