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Eden Cemetery (Collingdale, Pennsylvania)
Eden Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located in Collingdale, Pennsylvania. It was established June 20, 1902, and is the oldest existing black owned cemetery in the United States. The cemetery covers about 53 acres and contains approximately 93,000 burials. History Jerome Bacon, an instructor at the Institute for Colored Youth (the precursor to Cheyney 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. The bodies buried in these cemeteries were disinterred and re-interred at Eden Cemetery. The oldest reburial in the cemetery is from 1721. After litigation from Collingdale, Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collingdale, Pennsylvania
Collingdale is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The population was 8,908, at the 2020 census. Local governance Donna Matteo-Spadea is the current mayor of Collingdale. Frank Kelly served twelve consecutive four-year terms as Mayor of Collingdale until his passing in November 2018. He served over 47 consecutive years as Mayor of Collingdale. This was the longest consecutive mayoral term in the history of Pennsylvania. The Borough Council appointed Joseph Ciavarelli to fill the vacancy in the office of Mayor after Kelly's death. Ciavarelli lost the 2019 special mayoral election to the last mayor, Felecia Coffee. Making history, Felecia Coffee was the first African-American, the first female, and the first Democrat to ever be elected as mayor in the borough. Coffee was mayor for just months before the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 shut the world down. In a close race, Coffee lost the 2021 election to the current mayor, Donna Matteo-Spadea. In popular culture *Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M Anderson Eden Cemetery Delco PA
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''em'' (pronounced ), plural ''ems''. History The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a " Proto-Sinaitic" (Bronze Age) adoption of the "water" ideogram in Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value , from the Egyptian word for "water", ''nt''; the adoption as the Semitic letter for was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", '' *mā(y)-''. Use in writing systems The letter represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound in the orthography of Latin as well as in that of many modern languages, and also in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In English, the Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that is sometimes a vowel, in words like ''s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, Fauset's position as literary editor of ''The Crisis'', a NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era. Through her work as a literary editor and reviewer, she encouraged black writers to represent the African-American community realistically and positively. Before and after working on ''The Crisis,'' she worked for decades as a French teacher in public schools in Washingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrone Everett
Tyrone Everett (April 18, 1953 – May 26, 1977) was a professional boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a top-rated contender in the junior lightweight division during the 1970s. His best known fight is a controversial decision loss to World Boxing Council Junior Lightweight Champion Alfredo Escalera on November 30, 1976. Everett was killed by his girlfriend on May 26, 1977, after she found him with a transvestite. Boxing career In his early teens, Everett was inspired to start boxing after a kid who lived across the street from the Everett home showed him a boxing trophy he had won. Everett briefly quit after losing an amateur bout to Jerome Artis, but Jimmy Arthur, who trained Everett, convinced him to return to the gym. Known as "The Mean Machine," Everett was a sublimely skilled southpaw. The Associated Press called him "a classic boxer, using the ropes, deceptive power and skillful counter-punching." In the book ''Philadelphia's Boxing Heritage 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Duterte
Henrietta Duterte (1817 – December 23, 1903) was an African-American funeral home owner, philanthropist, and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first American woman to own a mortuary, and her business operated as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Biography Henrietta Duterte (née Bowers) was born to an affluent, free black family and raised in Philadelphia on Middle Alley which is now called Panama Street, in Philadelphia's Society Hill. She was one of 13 children, including entrepreneur, organist, and abolitionist John C. Bowers, and Thomas Bowers (singer), Thomas Bowers, a renowned opera singer known as "The Colored Mario." Known for her fashionable attire, she began her career as a tailor. In 1852 she married Francis A. Duterte, a Haitian-American owner of an undertaking business. Tragically, none of their children survived infancy and Francis died in 1858. After her husband's passing, Henrietta took over the funeral parlor and became the first Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James DePreist
James Anderson DePreist (November 21, 1936 – February 8, 2013) was an American conductor. DePreist was one of the first African-American conductors on the world stage. He was the director emeritus of conducting and orchestral studies at The Juilliard School and laureate music director of the Oregon Symphony at the time of his death. Early life and education DePreist was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He was the nephew of contralto Marian Anderson. He was in the 202nd Class at Central High School, Philadelphia, graduating in June, 1954. DePreist studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory while earning a bachelor's degree at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. On the side, he played percussion in a jazz Quintet, which performed on "The Tonight Show" with Steve Allen in 1956, and did enough composing to win a commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilie Davis
Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis (February 18, 1839 – December 26, 1889) was a free African American woman living in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her perspective on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the mourning of President Lincoln. These diaries are unique in their depiction of 19th century life of urban African American women and reactions to the events of the Civil War. Early life and education Davis was born free in southeastern Pennsylvania in 1839. Her father, Isaac Davis, moved to Pennsylvania from Maryland in the 1820s. Contemporary sources gave no account of her mother. The family lived in Lancaster and Schuylkill counties before relocating to the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia by 1860, the first year in which the census records Emilie Davis as a resident. She was one of 13,008 free Black women (in addition to 9,177 free Black men) recorded as living i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Coleman (counselor)
Frank "Tick" Coleman (February 29, 1912 – Christmas 2008) was an educator and community volunteer. Born in Philadelphia, Coleman grew up in its Point Breeze, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Point Breeze neighborhood. He was one of the first African American, black Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), Eagle Scouts. Coleman is noted for supporting those institutions that helped him succeed and mentoring many youth in the city of Philadelphia. Early years While at Public Schools of Philadelphia#Elementary and middle schools, Logan Elementary School, he acquired the nickname "Tick" because his classmates said he could do things in a "few ticks of the clock." Because of segregation when Coleman was growing up in the 1920s, blacks were not allowed in at most city-run swimming pools. At that time, the YMCA was also segregated, so Coleman and his friends swam at the Christian Street YMCA, founded in the 1880s by African Americans in South Philadelphia. Coleman would then go on to serve the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Cole
Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years earlier. Throughout her life she faced racial and gender-based barriers to her medical education, training in all-female institutions which were run by the first generation of graduating female physicians. Early life and education Cole was born in Philadelphia on March 16, 1846, one of five children. Cole attended high school at the Institute for Colored Youth where the curriculum that included Latin, Greek, and mathematics, graduating in 1863. She went on to graduate from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867, under the supervision of Ann Preston, the first woman to be dean of the school. The Women’s Medical College was founded by Quaker abolitionists and temperance reformers in 1850. Initially named the Female Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline LeCount
Caroline Rebecca Le Count ( – January 24, 1923; often written as LeCount) was an African-American educator and civil rights figure from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is often compared to activist Rosa Parks for her early efforts to desegregate public transportation. Early life LeCount was born in South Philadelphia in 1846 as one of four children. Her father, James LeCount, was a cabinet maker and undertaker who was probably involved in the Underground Railroad, as stories have been passed down about him hiding slaves in coffins. Caroline began school at a young age and graduated at the top of her five-person class from the Institute for Colored Youth in 1863. Career After LeCount passed the teaching exam, being the first black woman in Philadelphia to do so, she began teaching at the Ohio Street School (later renamed the Octavius V. Catto School). She became principle around 1868, making her the second black female principle in Philadelphia. She notably defended black te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805. Burr's legacy is defined by his famous personal conflict with Alexander Hamilton that culminated in Burr–Hamilton duel, Burr killing Hamilton in a duel in 1804, while Burr was vice president. Burr was born to a prominent family in New Jersey. After studying theology at Princeton, he began his career as a lawyer before joining the Continental Army as an officer in the American Revolutionary War in 1775. After leaving military service in 1779, Burr practiced law in New York City, where he became a leading politician and helped form the new Jeffersonian democracy, Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party. As a New York Assemblyman in 1785, Burr supported a bill to end slavery, despite having owned slaves himself. At age 26, Burr married Theodosia Bartow Prevost, who died in 1794 after twelve years of marria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pierre Burr
John Pierre Burr (June 1792 – April 4, 1864) was an American abolitionist and community leader in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active in education and civil rights for African Americans. He was an illegitimate child of Aaron Burr, the third U.S. Vice President, and Mary Emmons, a Haitian governess who may have been born in Calcutta, India. Early life and education Based on accounts of some of Burr's contemporaries, as well as oral tradition and family histories maintained by Burr's descendants, politician Aaron Burr fathered two illegitimate children with a Haitian governess, who may have also been East Indian, who worked in his household in Philadelphia during his first marriage. John (or Jean) Pierre Burr, the younger of the two, was born in 1792 in either New Jersey or Philadelphia to Mary Emmons, Eugénie Beauharnais, a servant or governess in the household of politician Aaron Burr and his first wife Theodosia Bartow Prevost. Before being brought to Philadelphia, Mary/Eug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
