Matthew W. Bullock

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rdf:langString Matthew Washington Bullock (September 11, 1881 – December 17, 1972) was an American football player and coach who rose to distinction in many fields, and many of them with instances of racism in opposition to his life and skill, through which he persevered as a pioneer for justice and humanity. He began with American football playing and coaching, gained degrees from Dartmouth (1904) and Harvard Law School (1907), undertook service in HBCUs in Georgia, during World War I. He held various appointed positions in Massachusetts State government totaling some 26 years, most notably the State Parole Board, including 5 years as its chair, was locally and then nationally known as a member of the National Urban League and also the leadership of the Massachusetts Bar Association. While several of these were ongoing he joined the Bahá'í Faith after membership and leadership in different Christian Churches. In a decade and a year after serving on the Boston Bahá'í Spiritual Assembly and the religion's Regional Teaching Committee he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. On his second term, after Baháʼí pilgrimage and taking part in the Intercontinental Bahá'í Conference in Uganda, being of service in other countries in Africa and the dedication of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, he resigned along with many of his co-members to pioneer during the Ten Year Crusade for which he was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh because he chose a virgin territory. After returning home, he undertook tours promoting the religion in the North and South United States, and undertook a final year of service with state government. He received two honorary degrees, one from Harvard Law School and the second from Dartmouth College. Bullock was raised amidst Jim Crow life and Institutional racism well before the terms were defined. His parents were born into the last decades of slavery in the South and they moved to the Boston area in his childhood seeking some relief. One of Bullock's grandfathers had been killed by the rising power of the first era of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. During his time as a rising football star, he was the first, and at that time, only, black player at Dartmouth. In a game against Princeton University, he was refused accommodations and during the 1st play of the game his collar bone was broken and it was felt he had been targeted. After several years of play at Dartmouth as part of the early history of American football, he was not named to the All-American list of players though Edwin Henderson and others felt it was his due. Nevertheless he paid his tuition through Dartmouth and Harvard mostly through a coaching career at Malden High School and the Agricultural and Mechanical Schoolm as it was known then. From there he had some sports and academic success in Atlanta with Morehouse College and Agricultural and Mechanical College in Normal, Alabama. He rose to service in World War I where he promoted the service of women nurses of color going on to serve his soldiers with distinction, for which he was nominated for the Croix de Guerre yet was unjustly denied in the eyes of observers. On return to America he co-founded the Boston chapter of the National Urban League, attempted to run for state office, during which race was called out, and submitted a bill to make membership and establishing of the KKK in Massachusetts a crime. He was soon appointed as an assistant to the Massachusetts Attorney General followed by an appointment o the Massachusetts Parole Board. While a sitting commissioner, Bullock was once denied access to a hotel hosting an anti-crime conference and many other cases for parole were noted by even national coverage in newspapers. At the age of 65 while chair of the board, he was physically assaulted by a convict seeking parole. Outside his service in the state he also served as president of the Boston Community Church (then on Byron Street) giving talks and speaking roles on race issues, on the academic, civil, and sports achievements of the black community, and those who served it white or black, and to serve the black community in local agencies and institutions and aiding formation of others. He quit his church and joined the Bahá'í Faith in 1940 after having encountered a Bahá'í some years earlier. He was thankful to encounter the religion, with such community members as Harlan Ober, whom he joined in writing a biography, and Sadie and Mabry Oglesby. He met Louis Gregory and read the Bahá'í teachings starting with Some Answered Questions and was soon visible at Race Amity Conventions at Green Acre Bahá'í School. He gave Bahá'í talks even during the years of his chairmanship of the Massachusetts Parole Board, during which he spoke out on prison, convict, and parole issues. After failing to be reappointed to the Parole Board following service to nine governors, Bullock pioneered to Haiti. After further years of service at the local, regional, national and international levels of the religion, he was moved by the announcement of the Ten Year Crusade, along with several of his co-members of the national assembly, to pioneer again this time to Curaçao. This was followed by a stint in the Dutch West Indies, for which he was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. He returned to America and undertook some tours for the promulgation of the religion both in the North and South alongside a further year of state service, now totaling some 26 years in various posts. His health degraded intermittently in the 1960s. In the twilight of his years, Harvard Law School, and then Dartmouth bestowed honorary degrees and his service to humanity and as a Bahá'í was lauded including by the head of the religion, the Universal House of Justice, calling for a memorial meeting at the House of Worship in Wilmette, after his burial in the Boston area.

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