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Raising awareness about gentrification and community displacement

THE MANTUA COMMUNITY
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Mantua Hall Project,  10/21/60


Mantua Hall Project,  10/21/60


Mantua Hall Project,   01/21/64


Mantua Hall, PHA & Mantua Hall,  35th & Fairmount Ave., 06/20/60


Mantua Hall, view from 18th Floor,  10/21/60


Plan for Community Center, 39th & Olive Streets, Andrew Jenkins, 10/11/68


Corner of Union & Olive Sts., Jimmy Beecham, Mantua Community Planners, talks with youth, 10/11/68


Going over rebuilding plans – Chuck Baker, David C. Porter, Charles Collins, Carolyn Walker in workshops at 3625 Wallace St. with Mantua Community Planners, 10/11/68


Football toss event, track meet, Mike Hall won, 07/03/68


Forty-yard dash, track meet, 9 to 11 year olds, 07/03/68


Track meet, Pete Andrews, Coordinator,  07/07/68


Forty-eight youth complete leadership training in Mantua,  leadership training certificates to Vivian Wilson, Addelle Richardson, Alberta Lilley, Robert Williams, James Allen,  04/04/68


Young Great Society exercise at football camp near Brandywine, 07/29/73


34th & Haverford Ave., protest of subcontractors and construction companies, 07/13/78


Shows bridge over the railroad tracks, west side view of bridge at 41st & Mantua,  07/29/29

 

Photo credits: Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives, Philadelphia, PA

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