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Yedikule Fortress, Inner Courtyard

Yedikule Fortress, Inner Courtyard

Pictured above, the crowded Divanyolu street provided to be an enticing opportunity for progressive urban planners to Westernize Istanbul's roads

The residential streets of Beacon Hill possess a generally peaceful and calm ambience, lined with beautiful brick row houses, black gas lamps, and towering trees of bright green foliage.

The residential streets of Beacon Hill possess a generally peaceful and calm ambience, lined with beautiful brick row houses, black gas lamps, and towering trees of bright green foliage.

Lewis Hayden (1816-1889) was born a slave and eventually escaped with his wife to settle in Boston. Lewis later became a leader in the abolitionist movement and the Hayden House became a key stop on the Underground Railroad.

The Museum of African American History was once the Abiel Smith School, the first black public school that replaced the school in the basement of the African Meeting House. The school remained Boston's black public school until public schools were…

The frame, almost resembling a piece of modern art, reveals the underlying layers of brick and paint under the currently recreated walls of the African Meeting House.

The overlap of the Boston city tour bus with the Charles Street Meeting House, the home of a long segregationist tradition of church seating and the struggle against it, provides a snapshot of the different temporal layers that intersect in Beacon…