Foulkeways Celebrates Black History Month

Join Us in Celebrating Black History Month

Events Beginning on Martin Luther King’s Birthday:

• January 15th Dr. Melissa Cooper: African American Migration
• January 28th Dr. Daisy Nelson Century: Harriet Tubman Interpreter
• February 18th David Miller, Plymouth Friends Meeting & David Contosta, History Professor at Chestnut Hill College: Abolition Hall Discussion
• February 19th Join the Performing Arts Committee as they view videos of African American Composers

The works of Ronald Washington, a Philadelphia African American Artist, will be featured in the Lobby. Weekly movies celebrating Black History will be shown.

For more information or to RSVP for any of the upcoming programs, call 215-283-7010.

Quakers involvement in the Underground Railroad & the Abolitionist Movement

The abolition movement against slavery was strongly supported by the Quakers, in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Some of the first white people to denounce slavery in the American colonies were Quakers and they were also the first organization to take a collective stand against both slavery and the slave trade by starting international and ecumenical campaigns against slavery.

The Underground Railroad also figured prominently in the Quaker’s history. Levi Coffin, a famous Quaker from North Carolina, started helping runaway slaves as a child. As an adult, Coffin moved to the Ohio-Indiana area, where he became known as the President of the Underground Railroad. Elias Hicks wrote the Observations on the Slavery of the Africans in 1811 and urged the boycott of products of slave labor.

With strong roots in both of these movements, Foulkeways celebrates its heritage by commemorating Black History Month.

Images of Paintings Credit: Ronald L. Washington