Citizens for the Restoration of Historical La Mott (CROHL) will host a Black History Lecture on Sunday, February 23 at 3:00pm on Zoom.
James Paradis, a professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, will lead the lecture.
From the event’s description:
Paradis recently retired from Doane Academy where he served as Dean of the Upper School and taught for 35 years. He has authored two books, and contributed to another. He was historical consultant and narrator for documentary film, Black Soldiers in Blue: The Story of Camp William Penn. This lecture is based on a book in progress with the working title, Jeremiah Asher’s War of Rebellion.
Speaking about the remarkable life of “Jeremiah Asher: Preacher and Warrior”
Jeremiah Asher’s grandfather, Gad, taken into slavery as a young child, seized his freedom by fighting in the American Revolution. A child of a free Black father and a Native American mother, Jeremiah led a group of Black congregants in breaking away from their segregated Hartford church, and founding a new congregation. In his lifetime he would take a hand in founding four new churches and saving one other. Coming to Philadelphia as Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, he took an active part in the movement to abolish slavery. When the Civil War came, he actively recruited Black volunteers for the Union Army. Asher, himself, enlisted as a chaplain, traveling through campaigns in Virginia and North Carolina with the 6th Regiments of United States Infantry.
Also speaking:
James G. Mundy, historian emeritus, Union League Philadelphia and CROHL Board member, will highlight an artifact from the Camp William Penn Museum.
More details here.
CROHL will also host a Special Concert using the Words of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Octavius Catto on Saturday, March 1 at 3:00pm at Calvary Church, 7910 Washington Lane in Wyncote.
From the event’s description:
The Frederick Douglass Jazz Works is a groundbreaking body of music that honors the legacy of Frederick Douglass, an enslaved African in America who escaped to freedom and became an abolitionist, leading orator, statesman, political activist, writer, banker, ambassador, theologian, and statesman. Led by acclaimed composer, vocalist, and jazz artist Ruth Naomi Floyd, this body of work is comprised of her original compositions paired with Douglass’ words from the speeches and writings illustrated with the rich, powerful, and vibrant sounds of jazz music.
More details can be found here.
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