Figure 2_The Tech_1883_03_21_Page_18_Boston Skating

The Boston Roller Skating Rink entices patrons with advertisements in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology student publication, The Tech. The rink proprietors made clear the policy of refusing service “to any objectionable person”; a strategy used to prohibit African American skaters. (“Boston Roller Skating Rink,” Tech, 2, no. 13 (March 21, 1883): 18.