Boston

The former classrooms will become the scene of a dispute over whether a separate school can be improved without abolishing segregation itself.

The final stop brings the route back to the place where Black Bostonians themselves created a church, a school, and a hall for shared affairs.

A roadside shop found by chance will connect the museum's move with a new idea for children's exhibits.

This stop will show why the secret plan lost time before it even left the city.

Here, public land, a family business, and an old boat mechanism come together in one city story.

Here, a personal memorial gift will turn into a public controversy, after which a different bronze will remain in the courtyard.

Here, a dispute over a duty will turn into a collective action whose participants will protect other people's ships more carefully than their own peace of mind.

The history of preserving the building will show that the community had to choose between convenience and its own heritage.

The finale brings the route together in one square that several generations of residents reshaped after unsuccessful decisions.

Here, a dispute over trade explains why a market and a public hall ended up under the same roof.

The burial ground will show how different lives were brought together in a single political event.

The building will show what exchange among the museum, the developers, and the city made it possible to preserve a public place by the water.

The house marks the moment when the struggle for equal rights reached municipal service.

Here, defense organized inside a private home would be set against federal law.

The finale will show how the warning was sent so that it did not depend on a single rider.

A rare book will force the parishioners to choose between preserving an object and continuing their shared work.

Here you will trace the moment when the meeting gave way to precise and limited action.

The courtroom is needed to see this: a revolutionary argument could lose its case and outlive the verdict.

This stop will show what a legislative victory looked like on the first integrated school day.

Here, the military episode will continue decades later, when veterans meet their bronze ranks.

The church’s layout will show how a relocating parish was organized around the preacher’s voice and places for listeners.

This stop separates the street version of the event from what the court could prove.

The width of the avenue and its open connection to the garden show how much land the city deliberately chose not to put up for sale.

The bridge explains how access across the channel turned filled mudflats into an industrial district.

The park will take the place of a vanished rail terminal, of which only the name, hinting at the shape of the tracks, will remain.

The finale brings together a successful restaurant, a capsized steamboat, and today’s path alongside private homes.

An ordinary number above an entrance marks the place where a private school prepared changes for the whole city.

This stop shows how a hotel replaced residential houses and gave the lower part of the street a new price point and clientele.