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Negroes Plan Action to Halt Removal of Police of Their Race

A meeting is to be held to discuss the suspected plans of the South Street Business Men's Association to remove African American's from the police force.

Tags: 11th Street, 17th and Bainbridge Street, A.M.E. Church, Allen A. M. E. Church, Andrew F. Stevens, Bishop L. J. Coppin, Black businesses, Boycott, Department of Public Safety, G. Grant Williams, Harry Levy, Pamphlet, Philadelphia, Police, South Street Business Men's Association

Paul Lawrence Dunbar Lyceum Holds Big Emancipation Meeting

A meeting held by Paul Lawrence Dunbar at the Zion Baptist Church celebrating the annual Emancipation Day on January 4, 1918. The celebration included speeches, the reading of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, as well as singing.

Tags: 1918, Academy of Music, Beulet Hall, Charles H. Brooks, Clara Allen, Ella Hickman, Emancipation Day, G. Grant Williams, Leon Allen, Loar M. E. Church, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Rev. F. H. Butler, Rev. P. Matthews, Rev. W. H. Moses, Zion Baptist Church

Liberty Celebration Poster c. 1923

This poster announces the Academy of Music's Fifth Annual Liberty Celebration and Emancipation Exercises in Philadelphia on Monday, January 1, 1923. Festivities begin at 8 P.M. and features orator, Miss Nannie Burroughs, A.M.--attributed as "our most…

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