Beacon Press is established.

Originally the Book Fund Project of the American Unitarian Association, then the Press of the American Unitarian Association, it is located initially at 21 Bromfield Street. Its purpose, according to AUA President Samuel Eliot, is “[To publish] books that appeal to the higher instincts, do not command as a rule a higher circulation and cannot, therefore, be handled by publishing houses that are primarily commercial.” Titles include James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Paul Robeson’s Here I Stand, Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, Max Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, and Jean Baker Miller’s Toward a New Psychology of Women, as well as The Pentagon Papers in 1971.* The company relocates for many years to 25 Beacon Street and 41 Mount Vernon Street, and it moves to 24 Farnsworth Street in 2014.