1817 Philadelphia Anti-Colonization Meeting

CTL-E-1604 · Event · 1817

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Philadelphia meeting of Black leaders, organized with James Forten at Mother Bethel, rejecting the American Colonization Society’s emigration plans.

Relationships

Mother Bethel AME Church — held at
The 1817 meeting was held at Mother Bethel AME Church.

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James Forten — initiated → this record

Sources

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Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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