Buddies Club opens.

Built by the Massachusetts Services Organization (USO), it is located on Boston Common along Tremont Street. A recreation center for servicemen, it initially employs only white hostesses, and directs African-American enlisted men who try to attend its dances to the Ruggles Street USO in Roxbury. After a protest and boycott led by former Boston Branch NAACP chairman Ray Guild, an integrated club, the Stage Door Canteen, opens in the nearby Young Men’s Christian Union Building. It operates until the end of World War II, while the Buddies Club continues until 1962, and the building is torn thereafter.