This lecture and short walking tour highlight the Black community in 1913 Germantown, as documented in Baugh’s ‘souvenir” booklet published on the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Learn
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This lecture and short walking tour highlight the Black community in 1913 Germantown, as documented in Baugh’s ‘souvenir” booklet published on the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Learn about clergy, contractors, small business owners, medical professionals, and others who formed the core of the neighborhood’s civic leadership. See some of the churches, homes, and other physical evidence of the African American community on the eve of the Great Migration. We will begin with a talk in the galleries of the Black Writers Museum (in Vernon Park) and take a short tour along Germantown Avenue and Rittenhouse and Harvey streets before returning for light refreshments and a chance to visit the museum’s exhibits.
Led by Supreme Dow, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Writers Museum, and Tuomi Forrest, Executive Director of Historic Germantown.
