200th Anniversary of Black Pioneer, Dr. Martin R. Delany

Event Details

Time: May 6, 2012 from 11am to 12:30pm
Location: First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
Street: 2125 Chestnut Street
City/Town: Philadelphia, PA 19103
Website or Map: http://www.philauu.org
Phone: 215-563-3980
Event Type: worship
Organized By: Moonstone Arts
Latest Activity: Apr 23, 2012

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Event Description

Join Moonstone Arts in the 200th celebration of the birth of Martin Robison Delany, an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism. He was one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School. He became the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War. Trained as an assistant and a physician, he treated patients during the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsburgh, when many doctors and residents fled the city.