Female Anti-Slavery Society Mural, 2900 Germantown Ave
Mural depicts:Lucretia Mott, protesting black and white women, Martin Luther KIng, Jr, Barbara Moffett of the American Friends Service CommitteeThis was the first female led, racially integrated political movement in the USA“Am I not a woman? Are we not brothers and sisters?"
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Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Mural at 2950 Germantown Ave
See this mural at The Universalist Hagar Spiritual ChurchMural depicts: "Underground Railroad Mural" See Lucretia Mott, Robert Purvis both buried at Fairhill with their spouses See names of agents and conductors of the UGRR working in Philadelphia Read the text about UGRR and Fairhill Burial Ground
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Peaceable Kingdom at 950 W Clearfield Street
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Tribute to Peaches at 827 W Indiana Ave
Mural depicts: "Tribute to Peaches” Peaches Ramos, block captain organized the neighbors to help the police turn back the drug dealers who stood at the corner in the biggest open air crack cocaine market in the city from 1999-2001.Peaches was never harmed by the dealers who all knew her. Later, she visited Graterford prison and the inmates. They became the artists that painted the Healing Wall murals.
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"Together We Stand" at 901 W Indiana Ave.
Mural depicts: "Together We Stand"The Vietnam vet looks at his watch as if to say, “What time is it? I thought the war was over."Chollo and Yamira, teen boyfriend and girlfriend were killed on this corner during the drug wars.Twenty-five dealers stood on the corner, people died in drug houses, gunfire made streets too dangerous to go outside.
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Officer Ortiz at 837 W Somerset
Mural depicts: Officer Ortiz: from the neighborhood, he was killed in the neighborhood during the drug wars.
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"The Healing Walls: the Perpetrators Wall and the Victim’s Wall"
Mural Depicts: "The Healing Walls: the Perpetrators Wall and the Victim’s Wall" These murals were painted by inmates in Graterford Prison who had sold drugs in Fairhill.Peaches Ramos visited and they all remembered her as the one they respected and avoided.
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Inside Fair Hill Burial Ground
Tour 2: Inside the Fairhill Burial Ground 1703Enter through Cambria gate up the cobblestone path. See the signs with Lucretia Mott, white Quaker minister, and Robert Purvis, black businessmanThese great leaders of abolition and early women’s rights movements are buried here with their families. Text: George Fox, the founder of Quakerism visited the US once and left this land to Philadelphia Quakers for a Meetinghouse, a burying ground, a playground for children of the town to play and to grow simples (medicinal herbs)See map of the burial ground laid out in 1854, with grave locationsLucretia and James Mott, white Quaker abolitionists and early women’s rights leaders E Robert and Harriet Purvis, black abolitionists and early women's rights leaders E Mary Ann and Thomas M’Clintock - organizers of the Seneca Falls Conference on the rights of Women E Anna Jeanes - Quaker donor who gave Booker T Washington $1million to start schools for black students in deep southThe Jeanes Supervisors set up a network of schools that became the first public schools for black children. Edward Parrish - founding president of Swarthmore College, sent by President Grant to make peace in Indian territories.See arboretum of great shade trees, including William Penn American Elm, Swamp White Oak, Sycamores, LindenSee vault on lower path where bodies were stored in winter when ground was frozenSee history garden by the Indiana fence, with crops grown by succeeding cultures: Lenni Lenape, English Quakers, German Mennonites, African Americans, Caribbean HispanicsSee picnic table with benches from 1900 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - This is where the Youth Garden Interns meet in summer to work in gardens and farm stand.Rest yourself, Friend, on the benches. Imagine this Fair Hill in 1703 with the little stream Gunner’s Run running down Indiana Ave. to Germantown This was forest and farmlandHalf way between the towns of Philadelphia and Germantown a days ride on horseback. Here the Quakers built a little brick Meetinghouse that became a field hospital in the War of Independence 1776-1779-------Imagine the Purvises defying the vigilantes to shelter enslaved people on their way to Canada in 1840’s and 50’sImagine Lucretia and James traveling up and down the early Republic preaching against slavery and organizing resistance. 1830’s-50’s.Imagine Lucretia and Mary Anne planning the Seneca Falls Conference on the Rights of Women with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and two others. Imagine that first convention with their Declaration of Sentiments “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men and women are created equal and endowed by the creator with certain inalienable rights. "1848Imagine what we can do together today in Philadelphia to work for justice and bring more peace.
