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Program for Citizens-Community Task Force, Unity Day, 1998
Address: 200 W. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1998-06-13
Event was held at Delaware County Court House.
Flyer for Citizens-Community Task Force Unity Day, 1998
Address: 200 W. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1998-06-13
Event was held at Delaware County Court House.
History of the Delaware County Section of the National Council of Negro Women
Address: 1837 Township Dr., Cheyney (Pa.)
Date: 1998-11-07
Presented at the Third African American Womens Conference at Cheyney University. Probably written by Mary M. Edwards
Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County
Date: 1998-11-10
Article by Meredith Fischer about a swastika spray painted on a Valley Forge National Historic Park war memorial to Black Revolutionary War Soldiers.
Flower for "Who We Are, How We Lived" television program
Address: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1999-12-18
Flyer for this joint presentation by 6-ABC and the Philadelphia Inquirer, hosted by Jim Garner
Mary M. Edwards, invitation
Address: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1999-12-18
Invitation to the public to view Millennium Philadelphia: The Last 100 Years, which included a segment on the Edwards Family
Police/Community Relations Workshop, agenda
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-01-20
Program was facilitated by Ada Montare, Senior Conciliator, Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice.
Police/Community Relations Workshop, agenda
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-01-20
Program was facilitated by Ada Montare, Senior Conciliator, Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice.
Flower advertising talk with the superintendent of schools about racial incidents
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-05-19
Flyer inviting the community to talk with Dr. Laid Warner, Superindendent of Rose Tree Media School District about tragic events both locally and nationally. Sponsored by the Rose Tree Media School District and the Citizens-Community Task Force
Unity Day '99 Theme Song
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-06-19
"Wake Up Everybody," by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes with Teddy Pendergrass
Unity Day '99, press release
Address: E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-06-19
Written by Juanita Edwards. Events were held at Barrall Field in Media.
Representative James R. Roebuck, memorandum
Address: 1 West Pratt St., Baltimore (Md.)
Date: 1999
Page 1 of memo from the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus about the East Coast Regional Summit on Africa., held at the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center
Representative James R. Roebuck, memorandum
Address: 1 West Pratt St., Baltimore (Md.)
Date: 1999
Page 1 of memo from the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus about the East Coast Regional Summit on Africa., held at the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center
Mary M. Edwards, letter
Address: 334 N. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 2000-03-15
Inviting people to the 2000 Annual Awards Banquet of the Chester Branch of the NAACP where she will be one of the honorees.
Mary M. Edwards, newspaper coverage
Address: 134 Barren Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 2002-11-20
Article from Media Press by Eileen Laskas about a Rose Tree Media School District in-service training, at Penncrest High School, at which Mary Edwards and Liz Womack arrived to observe and were asked to leave.
Mary M. Edwards, newspaper coverage
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 2003-01-25
Article in Delaware County Daily Times, by Bette Alburger, about a call for Rose Tree Media Superintendent's Warner's resignation because of racial indifference.
Mary M. Edwards, newspaper coverage
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 2005 ca.
Article in Delaware County Daily Times, by Susan L. Serbin, about Mary M. Edwards disputes with the borough of Media over discriminatory actions against her and her two properties. She was supported by the International People's Democratic Uhuru…
Mary M. Edwards and Hamilton Jordan
Address: Not known
Date: 1980 ca.
On reverse: "Hamilton Jordan, Chief of Staff for Jimmy Carter, and Mary Edwards"
Cornelius Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Born a slave on Bonnie Doon Plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, he lived from 1839-1922. His father, Col. Thomas Ridley III, owned the plantation. Cornelius never knew his mother, and he ran away by himself in the spring of 1861. He made his…
Martha Jane Parham Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
She rejoined her husband Cornelius Ridley in Media after escaping from Virginia in 1864.
Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley, Marriage certificate
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1883/02/17
The two remarried on February 17, 1883 in Media, as their slave marriage in Virginia did not have legal status.
Cornelius Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Pictured here driving a mule-drawn delivery wagon for Hawley and Snowden's hardware store on State Street.
Cornelius and Martha Jane Ridley's house
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
They purchased their home at 308 North Olive Street in 1872, 10 years or so after escaping Virginia. Their descendants continued to live in the house until about 1972, when it was sold and torn down.