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SUMMARY:WALK WITH ME - 175th Anniversary of Oliver Gilbert's Dash for Liberty - We're Retracing His Steps
DESCRIPTION:Planned tracing of the footsteps of Oliver C. Gilbert and his ‘dash for liberty’ using the locations described in his autobiography.
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SUMMARY:Silver Jubilee Celebration of the UGRR Network to Freedom
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCollectively\, this vast network and the researchers behind it have profoundly expanded and transformed our collective understanding of the multi-generational\, multi-racial\, multi-national efforts to resist the institution of slavery through flight and escape. \nTo kick off this silver year\, the National Park Service and Network to Freedom staff will host a celebratory event\, featuring seminars\, guests and a film festival on Friday\, July 21\, at one of the crown jewels within the Network to Freedom\, the recently opened\, 10\,000-square-foot Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center on the grounds of Harriet Tubman State Park near Cambridge\, MD. \nStephanie Gilbert licensed her research to be used to certify Network to Freedom sites: \n\nMoses Cartland’s Home in Lee\, New Hampshire\nThaddeus Stevens’ Office in Lancaster\, Pennsylvania\n\nGilbert research was also used to recently secure Network to Freedom grant funding for Howard County (Maryland) Historical Society to erect a monument. \nStephanie Gilbert is scheduled to attend the 25th Anniversary celebration of the US National Parks’ Service Network to Freedom and will follow with a demisemiseptcentennial recreation of the escape of Oliver Cromwell Kelly (Gilbert) on August 20\, 2023\, tracing his Underground Railroad journey from Maryland to Pennsylvania\, following in his footsteps as outlined in his autobiography and using the directions provided to him by ‘Mr. Fisher’\, the UGRR operative in the Ellicott City (Ellicott Mills at the time) area.
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SUMMARY:Belmont Mansion Juneteenth Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Gilbert will share the history of how she came to possess the unpublished memoir of her 2nd great grandfather\, who’d escaped slavery at the age of 16 and settled in Philadelphia.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 abolitionist community. The Philadelphia story is prominent in the Memoir of Oliver Cromwell Gilbert\, who became a politician\, social activist\, lecturer and musician. This hidden figure is now coming to light and will make his first Philadelphia 21st century debut at the Belmont Mansion in celebration of Juneteenth.
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SUMMARY:Birthday Memorial Tribute at the Grave of Alexander Manly
DESCRIPTION:Alexander (or Alex) Lightfoot Manly ( May 13\, 1866– October 5\, 1944) was an newspaper owner and editor who lived in Wilmongton\, North Caolina. \nWith his brother\, Frank G. Manly\, as co-owner\, he published the Daily Record\, the state’s only daily African-American newspaper and possibly the nation’s only black-owned daily newspaper. At the time\, the port of Wilmington had 10\,000 residents and was the state’s largest city; its population was majority black\, with a rising middle class. \nIn August 1898 Manly published a controversial editorial objecting to stereotypes of black men as rapists of white women. He had earlier responded to a Rebecca Latimer Felton in Georgia who wrote about African-American males having relationships with white women. At the time\, white Democrats were inflaming racial tensions and promoting white supremacy in a bid to regain power in the state legislature. \nWhen biracial fusionist candidates were elected to Wilmington’s mayor and council\, a secret committee of Democrats conducted the only successful coup d’état in United States history\, now known as the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898\, and overturned the city government. They also ran the Manly brothers out of town\, threatening their lives; a large mob destroyed the printing press and burned down the newspaper offices; out of control\, it also attacked black neighborhoods\, killing an estimated 30-100 people and destroying much of what freedmen had built in the city. \nThe Manly brothers were among the 2\,100 blacks who permanently moved out of Wilmington after the riot\, resulting in its becoming a majority-white city. The brothers moved briefly to Washington\, D.C \nAlex married Caroline Sadgwar at his house. He and his wife then moved to Philadelphia\, where they then raised a family. Alex Manly remained politically active\, co-founding The Armstrong Association\, a precursor to the National Urban League\, and was a member of the African-American newspaper council. \nThe Manlys had two sons born in Philadelphia: Milo and Lewin. The former became an activist and fought for black property rights in Wilmington; he later became executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. \nAlex Manly’s son\, Milo\, married Mary Gilbert\, who was one of the original founders of Jack and Jill of America’s Inc. As such\, Milo was one of the first Jack and Jill dads with their dughter\, Patsy (Patricia) as one of the very first Jills of the organization.
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour of Eden Cemetery
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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.[10] \nHistory of Eden: Jerome Bacon\, an instructor at the Institute for Colored Youth (now Cheynew University) led efforts to create a cemetery for African-Americans who had been buried in cemeteries in Philadelphia that were being condemned by the city in the early 20th century. The cemeteries included Lebanon Cemetery (condemned in 1899 – closed in 1903)\, the Olive Graveyard (closed in 1923)\, the Stephen Smith Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored Person’s Burial Ground and the First African Baptist Church Burial Grounds. \nThe bodies buried in these cemeteries were disinterred and re-interred at Eden Cemetery. The oldest reburial in the cemetery is from 1721. \nAfter litigation from Collingdale\, Pennsylvania opposing the creation of an African-American cemetery in the township\, a charter for the creation of Eden Cemetery was granted on June 20\, 1902. Fifty-three acres of land previously part of Bartram Farms were selected for the creation of the cemetery. \nIn 2010\, Eden Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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