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Facing the Past: UPenn’s Ties to Slavery
Facing the Past: UPenn’s Ties to Slavery
Kathleen Brown, Professor of History, UPenn VanJessica Gladney, Public History Fellow, UPenn Kathleen Brown and VanJessica Gladney (Class of 2018) will discuss the impetus behind the creation of the Penn and Slavery student research project in Fall 2017 and some of its findings. The University of Pennsylvania, while not itself a slaveholding institution, was complicit […]
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Ethical Eating
Ethical Eating
Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society Discussions about the food we eat can be intense and divisive. The cruel treatment of animals used to provide humans with food, along with environmental and social justice issues, can divide progressive groups that agree on many things. How do we work through differences about personal decisions about what we consume? […]
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If Iola Were a Man: The Sexual Politics of Ida B. Wells
If Iola Were a Man: The Sexual Politics of Ida B. Wells
Mia Bay History Professor, University of Pennsylvania Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells overcame a difficult childhood to become a prominent journalist and social reformer, who was as outspoken as any of her male contemporaries. Speaking at a time when it was not customary for women to talk about violence, sex, […]
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Learning from Frederick Douglass
Learning from Frederick Douglass
Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society There are few historical figures that better epitomize resiliency, integrity, and strength of personality than Frederick Douglass. Few can match how he maintained his sense of self-worth against all odds and rose to the pinnacle of prestige. If it is true that, as Douglass said, “We have to do […]
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A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America’s School
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America’s School
Rachel Devlin History Professor, Rutgers University Rachel Devlin offers the first new history of the struggle for school desegregation in more than four decades, revealing it as a grassroots movement led by girls and young women. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, young African American women and girls, almost exclusively, attempted to register […]