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Philadelphia Vigilance Committee; 1840s and 1850s, abolitionists who worked to subvert the Fugitive Slave Act and helped escaped enslaved people, including Henry Box Brown; Jackson County, Indiana vigilance committee (a.k.a. the Scarlet Mask Society or Southern Indiana Vigilance Committee), 1868 – captured and hanged ten members of the Reno Gang
Frederica Massiah-Jackson (born 1951) is a Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas judge. She served as President Judge from November 2000 to January 2006. [1]
An Address Delivered by John Q. Stewart at the Twenty-second Annual Reunion of the Association of Battery B, First Artillery, Pennsylvania Reserve Corps at Mount Jackson, Lawrence County, Penn'a., Monday, June 8, 1891 (New Castle, PA: New Castle News), 1891. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908).
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The Vigilant Association of Philadelphia was an abolitionist organization founded in August 1837 in Philadelphia to "create a fund to aid colored persons in distress". [1] The initial impetus came from Robert Purvis, [2] who had served on a previous Committee of Twelve [clarification needed] in 1834, and his father-in-law, businessman James Forten.
Carpenters' Hall. / 39.9481; -75.1472. Carpenters' Hall, in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the official birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a key meeting place in the early history of the United States. Completed in 1775, [4] the two-story brick meeting hall was built for and still ...
The Colonial Germantown Historic District is a designated National Historic Landmark District in the Germantown and Mount Airy neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along both sides of Germantown Avenue. This road followed a Native American path from the Delaware River just north of Old City Philadelphia, through Germantown, about 6 miles ...
The Convention Hall arena was located at 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, on the edge of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, and just to the southwest of Franklin Field. It was built in 1930 and its highest capacity was approximately 12,000. The building was an Art Deco landmark, notable for its many friezes and other decorative aspects.