NEWS AND EVENTS
March, 2008: Women's History Month
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LEGACY SERIES
"Slavery and the Underground Railroad"
Presenter: Professor Molefi Asante. Historian, Author, Father of Afro-Centricity, and Professor of African American Studies at Temple University. Professor Asante has published more books than any other contemporary scholar. His work on African culture and philosophy has been cited by Journal of communication, American Scholar, Daedalus and Western Journal of Black Studies.
Date: March 8, 2008
Time: l:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Admission: $7.00
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LEGACY SERIES
"Women Making History in the City of Philadelphia: The Crown Jewel of Fairmount Park" (Part II)
Audrey Johnson-Thornton is the founder and President of American Women's Heritage Society (AWHS). In 1986 the AWHS rescued Belmont Mansion from impending demolition with a mission to preserve and restore the historic Belmont Mansion. Discover women who are making a difference.
Presenter: Audrey Johnson-Thornton, President, American Women's Heritage Society
Date: March 15, 2008
Time: l:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Admission: $7.00
QUEST FOR FREEDOM
Quilt Workshop and Quilt Exhibit Tour
Presenter: Jeannine James, Textile Artist and Harriet Tubman Gift Shop Manager. A hands-on workshop that teaches the history of African American quilt making. Listen as Ms. James shares Underground Railroad signs and symbols sewn into the quilts that are on view.
Date: March 29, 2008
Time: l:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Admission: $7.00
Note: The Underground Railroad Legacy Series is presented by the American Women's Heritage Society Underground Railroad Museum at Historic Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park with generous funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and other funding sources.
The Underground Railroad Legacy Series explores issues of slavery and freedom, and Underground Railroad history. This series of lectures and public conversations seek to preserve and interpret the legacy of courage, determination, and perseverance as exemplified by the enslaved who freed themselves and those who helped others become free. It preserves the memory and deeds of freedom fighters such as Harriet Tubman, William and Ellen Craft, Henry Box Brown, William Still, Judge Richard Peters and his son Richard Peters, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and many other people and places too numerous to list here.
For More Info Call: 215-878-8844
www.belmontmansion.org
Belmont Mansion is a partner of the National Park Service Network to Freedom Program; NURFC Freedom Station, and Quest for Freedom.
All Programs will be held at: Belmont Mansion, 2000 Belmont Mansion Drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA
