| Boston Mutual Lyceum | |
| Founder: | William Cooper Nell |
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| Type: | Lyceum |
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| Location City: | Boston |
| Location Country: | USA |
| Region Served: | Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Dudley Tidd |
| Leader Title2: | 1st Vice President |
| Leader Name2: | Joel W. Lewis |
| Leader Title3: | 2nd Vice President |
| Leader Name3: | Sarah H. Annible |
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Boston Mutual Lyceum was an African American lyceum organization[1] founded in 1833.
It included women and had a female vice-president. Two of five managers were also women.[2] The Adelphic Union was an African American literary society in Boston at the same time.[3]
Officers were: Dudley Tidd, president; Joel W. Lewis, 1st vice-president; Sarah H. Annible, 2nd vice-president; Nath Cutler, secretary; and Thomas Dalton, treasurer. Managers were Joseph H. Gover, John B. Cutler, Henry Carroll, Lucy V. Lew, and Mary Williams. Josiah Holbrook helped organize the group.[1]
Tidd was a laborer[4] who became a property owner along with Dalton, who had been a bootblack.
The abolitionist newspaper The Liberator published by William Lloyd Garrison published a brief notice of the formation of the group listing its officers and managers.[5]
A Lew family history is known and she may have become Thomas Dalton's wife, known as Lucy Lew Dalton. Lucy Lew Dalton is part of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.[6]