Historic Black Lives Matter: Telling the Trust About Christ Church and Race at the Founding

FAIN: ZPP-283952-22

Christ Church Preservation Trust (Philadelphia, PA 19106-4509)
Barbara Hogue (Project Director: May 2021 to October 2024)

Archival research and public programs addressing the involvement of people of African descent in the colonial history of Christ Church, Philadelphia.

Although there has been various programs and articles over the past decades to create a more complete picture of how African-descent people have been involved in the early religious communities in Philadelphia, much information has been unavailable, overlooked or ignored. This project seeks to correct that, starting with the colonial and early republic period, and bringing that information firmly into the present.