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There are many things to be thankful for during this 357th Thanksgiving Day celebration.
In the panorama of Boston's black history we have many whose gifts of skill, energy, and commitment, helped develop and strengthen the black community, the whole city and the country.
Benjamin Roberts and his daughter Sarah (age 5) who first took the Boston School Committee to court in 1847 for the exclusion of black children from white schools in the city.
David Walker who wrote and published "The Appeal" in 1829 in Boston--the fiercest piece of antislavery writing of this time. He died mysteriously a year later.
Rev. Thomas Paul an organizer and first minister of the first black church group in Boston at the African Meeting House in 1806.
Rev. Leonard Grimes the...