On January 30, 2024 Stephanie Gilbert testified before the Maryland State Senate at the invite of Senator Arthur Ellis in support of his proposed bill (Senate Bill 105 - Emancipation of the Remains of the Enslaved) which was inspired by her story which ran in the Washington Post on August 5, 2023. Senator Ellis' proposal […]
Stephanie Gilbert is speaking to members of Jack and Jill of America's Delaware Valley Cluster on their Founder's Day. Topics include the legacy of African American women in Philadelphia; most notably the women who founded Jack and Jill of America.
Stephanie Gilbert facilitates a workshop for teens of Jack and Jill of America on January 7, 2024 in support of their 2024 legacy project to research and document their own family histories. Discussion topics include getting started, research tools, family interviews, using DNA (genetic genealogy), and putting it all together.
Stephanie will present two 'live' sessions in Houston: Saturday, November 4, 9am - 10am: 'Sojourns in Truth' Sunday, November 5, 10am -11am: 'Finding Suzanne'
Stephanie will be on location at the site of the Christiana Resistance to commemorate the anniversary of the event and will film a Legacy of the Underground Railroad Interview with US National Park Service Interview found here: An Oral History With Ms. Stephanie Gilbert descendant of Oliver Cromwell Kelly Gilbert. 9-8-2023. (youtube.com)
Planned tracing of the footsteps of Oliver C. Gilbert and his 'dash for liberty' using the locations described in his autobiography.
Since its birth by Congressional mandate on July 21, 1998, the National Underground Network to Freedom has grown from a scattershot smattering of recognized sites of UGRR activity into a truly international network of 744 sites, programs, and research facilities. Collectively, this vast network and the researchers behind it have profoundly expanded and transformed our […]
Stephanie Gilbert will share the history of how she came to possess the unpublished memoir of her 2nd great grandfather, who’d escaped slavery at the age of 16 and settled in Philadelphia. The narrative includes step by step detail of Oliver Gilbert’s experience on the Underground Railroad, inclusive of his flight to Pennsylvania and Philadelphia’s […]
Stephanie Gilbert will host a brief memorial ceremony with tributes on Saturday, May 13 at 10am in honor of Alexander Lightfoot Manly
Historic Eden cemetery, American’s first privately held African American burial ground, is located just outside of Philadelphia and is home to the remains of more than 90,000 ancestors. In July 2008, vandals toppled over 200 headstones in the cemetery, including that of Octavius Valentine Catto, one of the most famous burials at Eden Cemetery. History […]
