Grace Lonergan Lorch - View this location on map In 1943, while teaching at the Charles Taylor School, Grace Lorch became the first woman to challenge Boston s 19th-century policy requiring the resignation of female teachers upon marriage. Unwilling to see her students suffer, she continued to teach her class at a substitute teacher s salary. A lifelong activist for educational and civil rights, Lorch later moved to Tennessee with her family. She received national attention in 1957, when she rescued a young girl from an angry crowd protesting the desegregation of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. 1060 Morton St., Boston, MA Historical

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