Four women are elected to the Boston School Committee.

Ann Adeline Badger, Lucretia Crocker, Abigail Williams May, and Lucia Peabody become the first women elected to the Boston School Committee. They are subsequently prohibited from taking office, however, when the Supreme Judicial Court upholds the state ban on women holding elective office. The Massachusetts legislature enacts a law making women eligible to vote for and serve on school committees across the state in 1874.* Three of the women are officially elected to the board in 1875.*