Charles L. Blockson, Ph.D.
http://stillfamily.library.temple.edu
The collection holds images produced for the Housing Association of the Delaware Valley (previously the Philadelphia Housing Association) and the Octavia Hill Association, ca. 1897-1972.
Creator, The Charles L. Blockson Collection Temple University Philadelphia, Pa.
Historian, lecturer and author Dr. Charles Blockson has traced the network of forests, paths and safe houses (stations) that guided tens of thousands of American Black people from slavery to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Dr. Blockson’s work has reminded us that slaves did not sit passively waiting to be led out of freedom. He shows us that Black courage and perseverance, along with sympathetic help of White Americans brought many men, women and children out of bondage. He has done more than 25 years of research on the subject, including an article called Escape from Slavery: The Underground Railroad, published in National Geographic Magazine (July 1984). He was also selected as the chairperson of the magazine advisory committee to examine the historical significance of various sites, covering 20 states and territories and including links to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
William Still
William Still: An African-American Abolitionist is a collection of digitized archival resources, detailing the life and times of Still and his family, primarily his daughter, Caroline Still Anderson. Covering much of his social and political activities, the collection provides a glimpse into Still’s life, highlighting his accomplishments, fatherhood, family matters, and concerns for the state of affairs of African Americans in the nineteenth century. This site includes family letters, family photographs and abolitionist pamphlets from the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries.
Caroline Still Anderson
