Starr Garden Pool

Starr Garden Pool

recreation; swimming; Philadelphia City Parks

Children playing in a pool a Starr Garden at 617 Rodman Street. Site of the College Settlement and the W. E. B. DuBois House, Starr Garden offered social services and opportunities to the poor, immigrants, and African Americans. These services included a music school, classes, and boys and girls clubs. W. E. B. DuBois lived here from 1896-97 while he researched his groundbreaking study, The Philadelphia Negro. In the early 1900s, right before the Great Migration, Philadelphia’s College Settlement excluded African Americans from their social service programs.

PH. B. Wallace

Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries

WCU, HIS 601/HON 451 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Spring 2016

June 1925

Janneken Smucker

Courtesy of Temple University Libraries

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