Some Questions for Examining Pennsylvania’s Black History

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Some Questions for Examining Pennsylvania’s Black History Civil rights activist Julian Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in January 1940. When he was five years old, his father, Dr. Horace Mann Bond, was named the first Black president of Lincoln University, Chester County, the country’s oldest private African American college. Bond’s family lived on the campus of Lincoln University until 1957, when Dr. Bond was appointed dean of the...
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Lost and Found

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lost and Found Lost A cornerstone of Pittsburgh’s African American community and an architecturally significant landmark in the city’s predominantly black Hill District, Ebenezer Baptist Church was destroyed by fire – which also claimed the lives of two firefighters – in March 2004. Formed in 1875, Ebenezer Baptist was the first black congregation in western Pennsylvania to own its own...
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LeRoy Patrick (1915-2006)

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on LeRoy Patrick (1915-2006) The record of civil rights in Pennsylvania is checkered at best. Proponents realize that it requires much more than legislation to guarantee equality for all Pennsylvani­ans. More often than not, it takes courageous private cit­izens to stand up in the face of bigotry, discrimination, and oppression. One such individual was the Reverend Dr. LeRoy Patrick (1915-2006), of Pittsburgh. Patrick died...
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