topic:"African Americans" found 11 records - Research Collections

African American freedom journey in New York and related sites, 1823-1870 : freedom knows no color

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19141

Author: Matthews, Harry Bradshaw.

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 973.3 M439

Responsibility: Harry Bradshaw Matthews.

ISBN: 9780979953743 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Author: Matthews, Harry Bradshaw.

Place of Publication: Cherry Hill, NJ

Publisher: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: xii, 467 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Summary: "Harry Bradshaw Matthews' history discusses antislavery movements in African American communities in New York State, as well as Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and their role in national movements during the 19th century. His identification and discussion of black leaders, historic sites, and instruction on conducting genealogical research is an outstanding addition that enhances the work. By compiling hundreds of illustrations consisting of newspaper articles, editorials, notices, and the name indexes of the 20th and 26th Regiments of the United Sates Colored Troops, Matthews gives a unique wealth of genealogical information that is a treasure-trove sure to aid scholars and family historians for years to come." [from GoodReads.com]

Subjects: African Americans - New York (State); African Americans - Pennsylvania; African Americans - South Carolina; Antislavery movements - New York (State); Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania; Antislavery movements - South Carolina; African Americans - Genealogy.; Historic sites - New York (State); Historic sites - Pennsylvania.; Historic sites - South Carolina.; Pennsylvania - Race relations.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 M439

African Americans in Pennsylvania : above ground and underground : an illustrated guide

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Author: Blockson, Charles L.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 326 B651

Responsibility: Charles L. Blockson.

ISBN: 1879441853; 9781879441859

Author: Blockson, Charles L.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA

Publisher: RB Books,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: 320 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-297) and index.

Contents: Enslaved Africans in early Pennsylvania --- African Resistance to Slavery --- The Underground Railroad --- The Fugitive Slave Law of1850 --- Black Enfranchisement --- The Question of Emigrationor Migration --- The Role of the Church --- Progress throughEducation --- Black Men and Women of letters --- EarlyPhiladelphia entrepreneurs --- Black Inventors and Scientists ---African Americans in Medicine --- African Americans in the Media--- Black Americans in Performing Arts ( Dance , Theater , Music, Film, and Television ) --- Black Artists --- Black Athletes --- A Guide to Historic Places

Summary: An illustrated biographical guide to some of the distinguished Afro-Americans of Pennsylvania.

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Race relations.; Pennsylvania - History, Local.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 B651

The Black presence in Pennsylvania : "making it home"

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19159

Author: Lapsansky, Emma Jones.

Edition: 2nd ed.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 326 L317

Responsibility: Emma Lapansky [i.e. Lapsansky].

Author: Lapsansky, Emma Jones.

Edition: 2nd ed.

Place of Publication: University Park, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical Association,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: [iv], 50 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania history studies ; no. 21

Notes: Author's name misspelled on t.p., cover.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

Summary: "Enter into the centuries-long debate about justice for the African and African American inhabitants of Pennsylvania with this history, which spans from William Penn's colony to the twentieth-century political achievements of black political leaders. Learn about the growth of African American communities through the experiences of James Forten, Richard Allen, Octavius Catto, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, and many others. This is the ongoing story of 'making a home' in Pennsylvania." [from the publisher]

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania; African Americans.; Pennsylvania - History.; Pennsylvania.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 L317

Defend or destroy? The Columbia-Wrightesville Bridge in the Gettysburg campaign

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17893

Author: Schaefer, Thomas L.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 974.815 COLU D313 DVD

Responsibility: written and directed by Thomas L. Schaefer.

Author: Schaefer, Thomas L.

Place of Publication: [S. l.]

Publisher: A Total Magic Video Production ,

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: 1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes: "Produced for Rivertownes PA USA in commemoration of the 140th anniversary of the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge on 28 June 1863, this program narrates the dramatic story of the bridge's destruction and details the valiant attempt of an outnumbered detachment of raw Union militia to halt the advance of Confederate Brigadier General John Gordon's determined veteran infantry."; Also "introduces the poignant, very risky participation of a company of free blacks from Columbia."

Subjects: Gettysburg (Pa.) Battle of, 1863-; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - York County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; York County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Media

Call Number: 974.815 COLU D313 DVD

History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15186

Author: Smedley, R. C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 973.7115 S637 2005

Responsibility: R.C. Smedley ; introduction by Christopher Densmore.

ISBN: 0811731898

Author: Smedley, R. C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes: Originally published: Lancaster, Pa. : Office of the Journal, 1883.; Includes index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: This book was written in 1883 by Robert Clemons Smedley, a Chester County Pennsylvania physician who interviewed participants in the underground railroad. He was not a historian and was not unbiased. But he is considered to have been conscientious in his efforts to record the stories he was told. He wrote about events as described to him by person who themselves were involved, both those fleeing slavery and those assisting them.Topics in chapters 1 & 2 include William Wright and Columbia, PA. Chapter 8 is about the "Christiana Tragedy".

Subjects: Underground railroad - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Chester County; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Chester County; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Biography.; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Biography.; Chester County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 S637 2005

Recording, Video

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: African-American Veterans Oral History Project interview with Hazel Jackson

Object ID: OH0163

Date Range: 2007/03/15

, the um, my home county is Okoney County, but um…the school that I was teaching in was Anderson County. Well, uh, in the city of Anderson, which was the main high school, uh, for African Americans in that area, in that county, um, this school had always taken first place in the oratorical contest. And

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: African-American Veterans Oral History Project interview with Hazel Jackson

Description: Oral history interview with Hazel Jackson, the first African American teacher in the School District of Lancaster.

Date Range: 2007/03/15

Date of Interview: 2007-03-15

Creator: Jackson, Hazel, 1926-2014, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Jackson, Hazel; LeFever, Carol; Shugar, Miles

Interviewer: LeFever, Carol

Narrator: Jackson, Hazel

Other Creators: Shugar, Miles, collector

Subjects: African Americans; African American women; African American teachers; African American Veterans; Oral history

Search Terms: African American teachers; African American Veterans; African American women; Local figures; Oral histories; Persons of color; Teachers; Veterans; Women

Area / Region: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Place of Interview: Home of Hazel Jackson

Object Name: Recording, Video

Length of Interview: 1:31:50

Object ID: OH0163

Description Level: Item

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0164

Date Range: 2006/10/19

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: African American Veteran oral history interview with Nelson Polite Sr., a prominent African American leader in Lancaster City.

Date Range: 2006/10/19

Date of Interview: 2006-10-19

Creator: Polite, Nelson Sr, 1923-2016, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: LeFever, Carole; Polite, Nelson Sr.; Shugar, Miles

Interviewer: LeFever, Carol

Narrator: Polite, Nelson Sr.

Subjects: African Americans; American Legion; African American veterans; Oral history

Search Terms: African American Veterans; African American American Legion Post 780; Local figures; Oral histories; Persons of color; Veterans

Place of Interview: Home of Nelson Polite Sr.

Object Name: Recording, Video

Length of Interview: 00:48:21

Object ID: OH0164

Classification: OH0164

Description Level: Item

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0165

Date Range: 2006/10/17

started there then as a sophomore really. L: Aren’t you one of the first African Americans on that campus? B: Yes. At the time I got started at F&M, uh, there were there local African Americans on campus. Uh, Sumner [Bohee] had started a year before. Grant [Miens] and I had started at the same time, about

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: African American Veterans Oral History interview with Sydney Bridgett Sr. Bridgett discusses how the African American-American Legion Post 780 was established in Lancaster County.

Date Range: 2006/10/17

Date of Interview: 2006-10-17

Creator: Bridgett, Sydney Sr., 1925-2016, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Bridgett, Sydney, Sr.; LeFever Carole; Shugar Miles

Interviewer: LeFever, Carol

Narrator: Bridgett, Sidney

Subjects: African American veterans; African Americans; Oral history; Veterans

Search Terms: African American American Legion Post 780; African American Veterans; African American Veterans Oral History; Oral histories; Persons of color; Veterans

Place of Interview: Home of Sidney Bridgett

Object Name: Recording, Video

Length of Interview: 1:00:36

Object ID: OH0165

Notes: Mark Subject; 0:05:08 First annual military ball held at Crispus Attucks Comunity Center; 0:05:38 Orginal program from where the charter was presented; 0:07:31 Contains three chapter verses of the Negro Naitonal Anthem and call to order