About this Event
Over 60 years, first begining as individuals and later in marriage, Dr. Rosalind and Leonard Jeffries have began their Great and Majestic Walk with African Peoples and our Great Culture. Their Walk has spanded more than 25 African Countries and Hundreds of African Leaders and at the same time they were instrumental in fusing the African American Experience with their African Continental Experience !
1865 people were not interested in
immigration into the United States. In
fact, the United States in the 1850's
and 1860's had established a Know-
Nothing Party; they did not want
immigrants; they were against
immigrants; and the immigrants that
they were against were Papists,
German and Irish Catholics. There was
no prospect of bringing in immigrants
from central, eastern, and southern
Europe; these were the unwashed
masses. Eighteen-sixty-five was our
period. Eighteen-sixty-five was when
half a million Black people, a quarter-
million of them official Union army,
navy troops-participated in the Civil
War.
The question of Black folks getting into
their history, starting to fight for liberty
and struggling for what is right is not
the question of disuniting America. It
has been our struggle that has kept
America united. It has been our
struggle that has raised anew the
liberties that this nation professes. It
has been our struggle that has created
the 14th Amendment that became the
amendment that the women could use
and others could use, when they talk
about the expansion of liberty in
America.
-Dr. Leonard Jeffries
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
4014 Walnut St, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
