Contents » Activism
Abolitionism

AIDS and AIDS Activism

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The American Civil Liberties Union, a national legal organization dedicated to the defense and preservation of civil liberties in the United States, has been organized in the Philadelphia region since 1951, when chapters formed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as part of a move toward establishing branches throughout the nation. Both chapters played a role ⇒ Read More
American Friends Service Committee

Animal Protection

Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens

Armstrong Association of Philadelphia

Artisans

Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Black Power

Board of Health (Philadelphia)

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Children’s Aid Society of Pennsylvania

Chinatown

Christiana Riot Trial

City Beautiful Movement

Civil Defense

Civil Rights (African American)

Civil Rights (LGBT)

Civil War Sanitary Fairs

Coffeehouses

Cold War

Colonization Movement (Africa)

Common Sense

Community Development

Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

Continental Congresses

Crosstown Expressway

Crowds (Colonial and Revolution Eras)

Deafness and the Deaf

Democratic-Republican Societies

Dewey’s Lunch Counter Sit-In

Dispensaries

Dream Garden

Education and Opportunity
In the twentieth century, many urban school districts, which had been among the finest in the nation, became some of the most challenged. The Greater Philadelphia region reflected this trend. In 1900 the region’s school systems consisted of largely uncoordinated public, parochial, and private schools. Between 1900 and 1965 politicians, educational administrators, and civic leaders ⇒ Read More
Educational Reform

Environmental Movement

Fair Housing

Free African Society

Free Black Communities

Freedom Train

Friends Neighborhood Guild

Fries Rebellion

Fugitives From Slavery

Garies (The) and Their Friends

Garment Work and Workers

Gayborhood

General Strike of 1910

General Trades Union Strike (1835)

Girard College

Godey’s Lady’s Book

Grand Federal Procession

Gray Panthers

Great Depression

Greater Philadelphia Movement

Greek War for Independence

Gross Clinic (The)

Haitian Revolution

Historic Districts

Historic Germantown: New Knowledge
in a Very Old Neighborhood

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

House of Refuge

Independence Seaport Museum

Indian Rights Associations

Industrial Workers of the World

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Knights of Labor

Korean War

Koreans and Korea

Labor Day

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Landfills

Law and Lawyers

Lawnside, New Jersey

Liberia; Or, Mr. Peyton’s Experiments

Literary Societies

Loyalists

Lynching

Magdalen Society

March of the Mill Children

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Mayors (Philadelphia)

Mennonites

Mexican-American War

Model Cities

Mother Bethel AME Church:
Congregation and Community

Mother’s Day

MOVE

Murder of Octavius Catto

Musical Fund Society

National Freedom Day

National Guard

National Negro Convention Movement

National Parks

Nuclear Power

Occupy Philadelphia

Octavia Hill Association

ODUNDE Festival

Pennsylvania Hall

Pennsylvania Prison Society

Philadelphia (Film)

Philadelphia Award

Philadelphia Board of Trade

Philadelphia Maritime Exchange

Philadelphia Negro (The)

Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) Strike

Playgrounds

Police Athletic League

Price of a Child (The)

Printmaking

Prisons and Jails

Public Baths and Bathing

Public Health

Puerto Rican Migration

Railroad Strike of 1877

Redlining

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Reminder Days

Revolutionary Crisis (American Revolution)

Saint Patrick’s Day

Settlement Houses

Seventh-day Adventists

Shirtwaist Strike (1909-10)

Shoemakers and Shoemaking

Single Tax Movement

Skate Parks and Skateboarders

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

South Street

Spanish-American War

SPHAS

Sullivan Principles

Thrift

Trade Unions (1820s and 1830s)

Underground Railroad

Union League of Philadelphia

Urban Renewal

Vegetarianism and Veganism

Veterans and Veterans’ Organizations

Vietnam War

Vigilance Committees

Vine Street Expressway

Whiskey Rebellion Trials

Woman Suffrage

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

Women’s Clubs

Women’s Education

Working Men’s Party
