[28] Bullock finished at Harvard in the summer of 1907,[29][30][3][7] with a Bachelor of Law degree[2] studied at Cornell University,[2] and returned to Agriculture & Mechanics College[14][31] where he was set to coach more seasons.
[6] Later, in the words of Helen Elsie Austin, it was noted as the start of a career of public services of "more than twenty years, constantly pioneering for social justice and human dignity.
[60] In March Bullock was recognized in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin as the Secretary of the Boston Urban League, noted his service in France during WWI but thought that he had indeed received the Croix de Guerre from the French government,[61] Son Matthew Jr. was born April 4, 1920,[1][6] and a couple weeks later Bullock gave a talk on the history of the Urban League to a Boston Club,[62] and spoke at St. Bartholomew's Church in late May.
[93] He then joined in the mass organization across Massachusetts called for by then Governor Channing H. Cox on the relief effort for the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1 in Japan through the Red Cross.
[94] The Massachusetts Attorney General Jay R. Benton appointed Bullock as one of two special assistants in July 1924,[1][6][2][3][30] first focusing on the legal issues of the new construction of the northern traffic highway from Boston to Wellington Bridge in Somerville.
[118] In June he addressed the United Negro Welfare Council on the conditions of the northeast, listed as one of those assistants to the Attorney General, though it is more correct to say he was now a member of the Parole Board.
[128] That month Bullock publicly criticized President Hoover for segregating travels to Europe and observed that the women had been more true to Lincoln and Sumner's influence on the Republican party.
[141] In March 1931, the Great Depression deeply affecting America, Bullock spoke at an Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at a memorial of Col. Charles Young at a Congregational Church in New York.
[153] This year the Board's annual summary referred to their job being "increasingly difficult owing to the steady stream of pressure brought to bear upon it by relatives and influential friends” and having to defend itself against those who argue they are too lenient or too severe and “unfavorable newspaper coverage” with issues of re-employment, and alcoholic recidivism.
[172] In March Bullock contributed to a fundraiser for the Coast Guard,[173] and April he was one of the speakers at the Robert Gould Shaw House for a mass meeting on community issues,[174] followed a week later when the Parole Board heard of Portuguese citizen who had killed a policeman.
[188] In April Bullock attended the graduation ceremonies of the Bigelow Evening School in South Boston,[189] and in May was again elected as president of the Community Church then located at 6 Byron Street.
It is known that about 1929 Bahá'í Doris McKay had met him briefly with a letter of introduction from James Hubert, Secretary of the Harlem chapter of the National Urban League, but that his reception was cool to her meeting him.
[207] Meanwhile Bullock's annual term on the Parole Board was ending in December and the new governorship of the Democrat James Michael Curley and was part of widely advertised listings in the state.
[213] In February Bullock spoke in support of Clarence Skinner,[214] and was named to a committee to investigate ways to advance reemployment of the blacks of the state (after the Great Depression).
[223] In November Bullock was named first vice president of the Boston Urban League,[224] and attended an Omega Psi Phi reception listed as a leader of the Community Church.
[252][253] The Bullocks next appear in October 1940 among patrons of reception for Roland Hall Sharp speech,[254] a staff correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor who had been reporting on Fascism in South America.
Fuller, appointed to the Department of Correction in 1937 and that his son was a Bowdoin honors graduate and now serving as a private at Fort Devens while his daughter was a librarian at the Virginia Hampton Institute,[277] as it was called then.
[292] In August Bullock gave a talk "Forward March of Humanity" with Bahá'í Terah Cowart Smith then of Atlanta amidst the next Race Amity Convention held at Green Acre.
[293] He spoke of his experience in WWI seeking justice and fairness and being sore disappointed and social problems had only increased but how he had great joy having encountered the Bahá'í Faith.
[298] He also gave a talk in Springfield with the mention of the importance of accepting "the immutable fact that humanity is one" and racism as America's "most challenging issue",[299] a phrase Shoghi Effendi as then head of the religion had introduced in 1938 in The Advent of Divine Justice.
[309][9] His children long since moved on with lives of their own, and now alone, a month later he off on Pacific survey for then Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal,[310][9] as one among several touring about progress in race conditions in the military,[311] with Harry McAlpin.
[334] The April–May 1947 Bahá'í national convention noted an anecdote of youth walking together as an interracial group in Los Angeles being stopped and harassed by police and Bullock was a delegate from Massachusetts that year.
[341] In November coverage began of the Noxon pardon petition which carried on for 2 plus years - a lawyer who had killed a son born with medical complications compromising mental development.
[355] In September Bullock was the second runner up in the by-election to replace the deceased George Latimer on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States behind Leroy Ioas and Katherine True.
Bullock's next appearance in the news was as a talk at the Boston Bahá'í Center entitled "A New Message for a New Day” and noted aiding Bahá'ís going to Africa while still associated with religion's development in Haiti and Caribbean.
[415][9] A September newspaper article of Bullock because he was giving a talk on the religion recalled how he was asked by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal to review Pacific situation after WWII, and some former associations and currently active in Urban League.
[425] For the next few months Bullock traveled around Africa including the Belgian Congo,[9] and then he visited Liberia where he helped with contact with President Tubman so that Bahá'í pioneers were reinstated at their jobs at a hospital they lost December 1952 over circumstances and confusions of their intents and choices.
[444] In August, noting his history in and outside of America, Bullock spoke to the Bahá'ís of Marshfield,[445] and a couple weeks later taught a class at Green Acre mentioning he had traveled to Spain and Curacao in the West Indies.
[465] In December he gave a talk at Human Rights Day cosponsored by the Bahá'ís and the NAACP chapter in Connecticut again giving a profile of his life and work inside and outside America.
You believe very deeply that the establishment of universal justice and freedom requires the spiritual and moral awakening of all people….”[9] Bullock had met Dartmouth President John Kemeny who noted his achievements.