Lucy Parsons Center

The Red Book Store (now the Lucy Parsons Center) began in 1969 in a small one-room basement shop in Central Square, Cambridge.

It moved two or three times in the first couple of years, before settling into what would be its home until 1983 in a large space on the corner of River and Pleasant streets in Cambridge.

[1] Davis Square was a temporary location and with sales suffering, the center was flooded and had to make an appeal for support.

[citation needed] By the mid 1990s, the center was part of an established network of North American infoshops which included Long Haul in Berkeley, A-Space in Philadelphia and Who's Emma in Toronto.

[3] Apart from the bookstore, the Lucy Parsons Center serves as a space for community organizers to use for meetings and special events.