Charles Follen

Historical marker location:

755 Massachusetts Avenue, East Lexington, Massachusetts

( Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave. (Massachusetts Route 4) and Barnes Place, on the right when traveling north on Massachusetts Ave..)

Marker installed: 1915

In 1837, Harvard University held a "prostitute parade" where students marched through Boston with prostitutes to protest a law that would have made it illegal to hire women for "immoral purposes."