The Black Coalition of Philadelphia, 1972

Mss.363.L52

Date: 1972 | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 volume, 147 p., photocopy
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Abstract

Includes a brief historical sketch of blacks in Philadelphia, with a detailed examination of the Black Coalition as it came into being, and survived briefly, after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 volume, 167 p., photocopy. Pages 20-22 are missing.

Provenance

Presented by R. Stewart Rauch, Jr. and accessioned, 10/30/1975 (1416ms).

General

For a published account, based on Leff's research, see George W. Corner, "The Black Coalition, an Experiment in Racial Cooperation, Philadelphia, 1968." APS Proc. 120:3 (1976): 178-86.

African American History Note

A source providing insight in to the civil rights movement in Philadelphia.

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • Black Coalition (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Subject(s)

  • African Americans -- Civil rights
  • African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
  • Civil rights
  • Culture, community, organizations