Michiko QuinonesAug 179 min readAnd They Were Neighbors; Black Women Phenomenal Movers and Shakers of 1871 Nazera Sadiq Wright's study of Black Girlhood in the 19th Century leads us to see the emphasis that 19th Black women writers placed on...
1838 Black MetropolisJul 141 min readA Useful Framework for Understanding Black Associations in pre Civil War PhiladelphiaStudents of the Black population of Philadelphia before the Civil War will encounter a wide variety of types of organizations. As we have...
1838 Black MetropolisJun 168 min readFinding Beneficial HallOn May 17, 1838, Pennsylvania Hall burned to the ground. Probably because so much of the funding came from the Quaker community, and...