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Tuesday October 21, 2014 7:00pm – Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Avenue Robert Purvis & the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee In 1832, at the age of the twenty-two, Robert Purvis wrote a petition with William Whipper opposing Congressional funding of the emigration of free slaves to Africa. In 1833 Purvis helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society …
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Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:30pm – Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St William Still & the Pennsylvania Vigilance Committee The youngest of eighteen children, Still was a son of former slaves who started working as a clerk in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society during the 1840s and became the principal organizer of the state’s Underground …
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Thursday October 23, 2014 5:30pm – New Century Trust, 1307 Locust St Women In Revolt: Stepping into the World and The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Women demanded their place in the struggle for freedom, starting their own organization when denied membership in the all-male Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. Interracial and activist from the beginning, the PFASS …
Saturday October 25, 2014 7:00pm – District 1199C Philadelphia Headquarters, 1319 Locust St Revolution & Reaction (Philadelphia and America) Lombard Street Riot Pennsylvania Hall Pennsylvania Hall Burning Pennsylvania State House Columbia Avenue 1964 This last discussion is on the big picture, …
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Saturday October 11, 2014 – Tour the Germantown Underground Railroad Sites This is part of Moonstone Arts Centers Hidden History presentation on the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia – October 2014 The Historic Germantown Passport entitles an individual to one visit to all 16 Historic Germantown attractions, excluding special events and programs where additional admission fees …
Tuesday October 14, 2014 7pm – African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch Street Free with Museum Admission ($8 general admission, $5 AAMP Members) Slavery in the 21st Century: Sex Trafficking, Labor Trafficking, and Prison Labor Sex Tafficking, the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial …
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Wednesday October 15, 2014 7:00pm – Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad Street The Underground Railroad, the Civil Rights Movement & Today The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863 but that was just the tipping point. Emancipation was the result of a grass roots mass movement of more than thirty years and hundreds …
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Thursday October 16, 2014 7:00pm – 1199C Hospital Workers Union Hall, 1319 Locust Street Underground Railroad in Words and Music Kim and Reggie Harris present Music and the Underground Railroad, a concert of songs, stories and narratives about slavery and the quest for freedom which reveals the hope, the power and eventually the triumph shared …
Sunday October 26, 2014 The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 419 S 6th St 11:00 am – Worship Service – Dr. Mark Kelly Tyler, Senior Pastor Roots of Resistance: Remembering the Role of the AME Church in the UGRR. Second Building Today …
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