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The American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia Pa.) 1719-1749
Weekly Dec. 22, 1719- Ceased in 1749. \"The first newspaper published in the middle colonies, and the fourth in order of time, published in America.\" Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers p. 890 Available on microopaque and microfilm from Readex Microprint Corp. and on microfilm from Graphic Service Corp.
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The Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1887-Current
Weekly Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 15, 1887)- First issue preceded by \"Prospectus.\" Publisher: Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia, 1956- Vol. 126, no. 33-37 omitted in numbering. Also issued online. Also issued on microfilm by the American Jewish Periodical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mar. 8, 1946-Oct. 12, 1956 sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Charities, and: Allied Jewish Appeal of Philadelphia; Oct. 19, 1956- by the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia; by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Latest issue consulted: Vol. 214, no. 4 (Apr. 24, 2003).
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Courier De Boston : Affiches, Annonces, Et Avis (Boston Mass.) 1789-1789
Weekly No. 1 (23 avril 1789)-no. 26 (15 oct. 1789). First French language newspaper published in Boston. Issued also in Salem, Mass. by Dabney & Cushing; in New York by Thomas Greenleaf and John Fenno; and in Philadelphia by Mathew Carey. Printed in the French language, its chief functions were to further understanding and friendship between the French and American people and to print a digest of domestic and foreign news. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. Available on microfilm from University Microfilms Intl. and the Readex Microprint Corp. Also available online.
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A Fragile Freedom
This book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic.A Fragile Freedominvestigates how African American women in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of \"free persons\" in the decades leading up to the Civil War and examines comparable developments in the cities of New York and Boston.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar argues that early nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where most African Americans were free, enacted a kind of rehearsal for the national emancipation that followed in the post-Civil War years. She explores the lives of the \"regular\" women of antebellum Philadelphia, the free black institutions that took root there, and the previously unrecognized importance of African American women to the history of American cities.
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Governed by a spirit of opposition : the origins of American political practice in colonial Philadelphia
Civic engagement in the City of Brotherly Love gave birth to the American Revolution.
Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church governance, fire protection, and even taxation and military defense. These organizations dramatically expanded the opportunities for white men—rich and poor alike—to shape policies that immediately affected their communities and their own lives.
In Governed by a Spirit of Opposition, Jessica Choppin Roney explains how allowing people from all walks of life to participate in political activities amplified citizen access and democratic governance. Merchants, shopkeepers, carpenters, brewers, shoemakers, and silversmiths served as churchwardens, street commissioners, constables, and Overseers of the Poor. They volunteered to fight fires, organized relief for the needy, contributed money toward the care of the sick, took up arms in defense of the community, raised capital for local lending, and even interjected themselves in Indian diplomacy. Ultimately, Roney suggests, popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks empowered people in this critically important colonial city to overthrow the existing government in 1776 and re-envision the parameters of democratic participation.
Governed by a Spirit of Opposition argues that the American Revolution did not occasion the birth of commonplace political activity or of an American culture of voluntary association. Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of majority-rule and exclusionary policy-making on the part of appointed and self-selected constituencies.
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Wobblies on the Waterfront
For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. In a period when most unions, like many institutions, excluded blacks or segregated them, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was ideologically committed to racial equality. More than any other IWW affiliate, however, Local 8 worked to become a progressive, interracial union. For much of its time, the union majority was black, always with a cadre of black leaders, which included Ben Fletcher. Local 8 also claimed immigrants from Eastern Europe, as well as many Irish Americans, who had a notorious reputation for racism. _x000B__x000B_In Wobblies on the Waterfront, Peter Cole outlines the factors that were instrumental in Local 8's success, both ideological (the IWW's commitment to working-class solidarity) and pragmatic (racial divisions helped solidify employer dominance). He also shows how race was central not only to the rise but also to the decline of Local 8, as increasing racial tensions were manipulated by employers and federal agents bent on the union's destruction. _x000B_
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If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress
Philadelphia has long been a crucial site for the development of Black politics across the nation. If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress provides an in-depth historical analysis—from the days of the Great Migration to the present—of the people and movements that made the city a center of political activism. The editor and contributors show how Black activists have long protested against police abuse, pushed for education reform, challenged job and housing discrimination, and put presidents in the White House.
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress emphasizes the strength of political strategies such as the \"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work\" movement and the Double V campaign. It demonstrates how Black activism helped shift Philadelphia from the Republican machine to Democratic leaders in the 1950s and highlights the election of politicians like Robert N. C. Nix, Sr., the first African American representative from Philadelphia. In addition, it focuses on grassroots movements and the intersection of race, gender, class, and politics in the 1960s, and shows how African Americans from the 1970s to the present challenged Mayor Frank Rizzo and helped elect Mayors Wilson Goode, John Street, and Michael Nutter.
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress cogently makes the case that Black activism has long been a powerful force in Philadelphia politics.
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