DESCRIPTION: “On episode 11 of the Little Beaver Historical Society Podcast, we talk with Beaver County historian Charles Townsend about his family’s early abolitionist activism and the Underground Railroad in Beaver County.” Charles Townsend III is a native of Beaver County, and one of its most ardent historians. In 1999, he was one of the …
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DESCRIPTION: “This one-hour documentary is beautifully focused on the role of African-American laborers throughout the history of the steel industry. It is suffused with the filmmaker’s passion for revealing what had been deliberately overlooked: that black laborers most often had the grittiest, most dangerous jobs in the mines and the mills, and they never rose …
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DESCRIPTION: Oral History Interviews: Black Steelworkers in Aliquippa – James Sharply, Charles E. Gilbert, James Byld, James Downing Jr, and Henry Gipson SEE ALSO: Struggles In Steel – A Story of African-American Steelworkers a film by Tony Buba and Raymond Henderson Struggles In Steel – 20 Years Later, Still Struggling Sample RETURN TO THE LISTENING LIBRARY: …
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Voices from the cause and the United WE STAND rally in Beaver, Pennsylvania on June 13, 2020. Warning: Strong language, stronger ideas.
On episode 11 of The Magical Coach Podcast, Rick Mancini talks with Beaver County’s resident renaissance woman and Beaver Falls native, Elizabeth “Betty” Asche Douglas, about her extraordinary accomplishments as a pioneering African American educator, artist, singer, local historian, and 2020 Circle of Achievement Inductee.