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Massachusetts Emancipation Day/Quock Walker Day observed locally
Sean Osborne, historian, president and co-founder of the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington, delivers a speech about Quock Walker to a crowd at the First Parish Church in Lexington Center. / Alex Svenson photos State first in nation to abolish …