Female Students at The Berean School of Philadelphia

Female Students at The Berean School of Philadelphia

Berean School, Philadelphia, PA; Industrial School; Female students; African American Education

As a response to the growing social problems of urban industry in Philadelphia, Dr. Matthew Anderson founded the Berean Manual Training and Industrial School in 1899. The school trained African American workers who migrated to Philadelphia. This photograph features twelve female students in 1933, over thirty years after the school's foundation.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

c. 1933

Kristen Waltz and Drew Blumenthal

Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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