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Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice

Sunday, November 6, 11am First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut Street Rev. Nate Walker has organized a service around our topic: Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice The Unitarian Church was firmly Abolitionist in the nineteenth century and continues to be a progressive force in the twenty-first century. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a …

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Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice

Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 6pm Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street Emancipation and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice Abraham Lincoln has been called The Great Emancipator and the issuance of The Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 certainly changed American history forever. It is important to understand that this act was neither the …

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Emancipation: The Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice in Philadelphia

Monday, October 31, 7pm Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street The Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice in Philadelphia A discussion with Michael Coard, Jim Mueller & Larry Robin Our project is grounded by 150th anniversary of the firing of General John C. Fremont for issuing his own Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in Missouri. …

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