Learn about the history of the Echelon Mall and Camden County Library! CLICK HERE TO VISIT!

For my presentation on the Saint Agnes Hospital in Philadelphia, I have created a presentation through prezi that tells the story of the building. Attached is my annotated bibliography as well.

file:///Users/rwillard/Desktop/American%20History/Q1/St._John/The_person.html

Just in case you are unfamiliar with iweb sites, you are able to click on the links at the top to view different pages (in this case, at the top under my name is three links called the person, the place, and my works)

Yadi Angeles

Water Stream

"MOVE: A Cult Unvelied" is a video focusing on the cult MOVE and the problems they had with the police. It tells two sides of a story with bad decisions and actions on both sides. It brings forth questions of trust for the government and a strange understanding for a cult the just had a strong way of expressing beliefs.

Link for video:

Link for citations: 

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XZuwHCeujTF8X7jPJuYyD8VFFz2jcPmVfbaftGW-qWA

Johnson, Vivian. Personal Interview. 30 October 2010. 
Vivian gave me a description of why the building's stained glass window were made the way they are.



Dender, Robert. Photographs. 2010. robdender.com. 29 October 2010. 
The pictures I used from the cite gave me different views of the building. The pictures also show an inside view of the building. 



United States. Department of Architecture. Office of General Architecture. "60th, North Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Article : J289X2". Office of of General Architecture. Office of Gen. Arch., June 1931. Web.  

At Science Leadership Academy, the Juniors in Earth and Water Streams had to do a project for both English 3 and American History. The basis of  the project was to build a story about a building in your neighborhood and the person that the building is named after. For my project I decided to use Clara Barton Elementary School for the building, I then told the story of Clara Barton and Clara Barton Elementary School.

Penn Alexander (University of PA Partnership School):

                                  History (C) and English (D)

                                          Chase/Laufenberg

 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PAgk6JeFa0 

Special thanks to Ann Kreidle (program coordinator) for taking her time interviewing with us and the teachers/students of Penn Alexander.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was born on January 2, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her childhood was lived normally as every other young girls, but in 1916, Sadie attended the M Street High School located in Washington D. C. Two short years later, she graduated and was persuaded by her mother to attend the University of Pennsylvania for Education, where they had close ties. Both her father and uncle were the first African Americans to graduate and receive any types of degrees from the University of Penn. In 1921, Sadie had become the first black woman to receive her Doctor of Philosophy in the United States. As she should be, she was quite smug about her graduation. Sadie stated, "I can well remember marching down Broad Street from Mercantile Hall to the Academy of Music where there were photographers from all over the world taking my picture."

Sadie was also apart of the first African American Sorority which was called the Gamma Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. That same year, she became the first president of the Sorority's organization: the Grand Chapter. She served as president there for five years before moving on. After graduation, Sadie had a lot in place for her. She became an actuary with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1923, Sadie returned to Philadelphia and married Raymond Pace Alexander, a recent Harvard University graduate who received his degree in Law. Not long after they married, Sadie was the first black woman admitted into the PA State Bar. She soon went back to the University of Penn to study and earn her degree in Law, like her husband. Four years later in 1927, she became the first African-American woman to earn an L.L. B. from the University of Penn Law School and she was admitted into the Pennsylvania State Bar to practice law. Shortly after, Sadie joined her husband's law firm. They fought against discrimination and segregation in Philadelphia public places. 

She became the first African-American to be the assistant city solicitor of Philadelphia and was chosen to be the secretary of the National Bar Association in 1943. She was not only the first African-American woman to hold a national office in this Association, but she was the first woman in general. Props to Sadie! In 1959, Sadie opened her own law firm and worked there until 1976 when she left to work in the firm of Atkinson, Myers and Archie. Law had become her life as she was active in over 30 local and national organizations. In 1974, Sadie received her fifth degree from the University of Penn: an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Soon after, in 1978, she was named chair person of the White House Conference of Aging.

 She died 11 years later on November 1, 1989.Sadie is remembered and honored at the Penn Alexander school that was named in remembrance of her. She was an exceptional woman.

This source gave us a brief timeline of Sadie's life, but didn't give all the details. It was very helpful in giving pinpoint times and dates though.

For my English and History project, we were allowed to work alone or with a partner from our zip code or neighborhood. In the end we had create a hypertextual narrative telling the story of a building within our zip code/neighborhood named after a historical figure. My building was the Germantown White house in witch had small battle going on in a time it was there. There was a disease getting passed around during a time period; and so much more is going on as you will find out as you listen to my project. So I decided to do a pod cast that talks about some of the important fact that i thought was mainly important and so I shared them with you all in this pod cast. So I thought that would be a very creative way to do this project for a change. I hope you all like it and enjoy. 

Bibliography 

http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/lower/deshler.htm

http://www.schuylkillriver.org/Detail.aspx?id=5042

http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/howe.htm

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/yellowfever.htm

http://www.dhpe.org/infect/yellow.html