West End Museum highlights neighborhood’s Black history

Long before the city’s West End became synonymous with destruction and displacement because of urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, the neighborhood was an epicenter of Black life in Boston and home to the country’s oldest standing Black church and the oldest public school for Black children.

The West End Museum highlighted this era from the neighborhood’s past on Saturday with a pair of lectures and virtual tour of Black civic and domestic life in the area going back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The event was held in a community room at Hub50House, a residential high-rise constructed as part of the $1.1 billion Hub on Causeway project.