SAN FRANCISCO -- When Dorothy "Polka Dot" Quock walks into a room, you notice. Thursday night, the room in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed with people celebrating her 90th birthday.

The festivities honored Quock Walker, who was enslaved on a farm in Central Massachusetts and sued for his freedom in 1781. Under a law signed in 2022, Monday is a state holiday marking a 1783 ...

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