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From PJP Gallery: Historian, Dr. Diane Turner of Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection speaks at a PJP Community Conversation back in 2014 / For more photos, visit PJP Gallery at: http://bit.ly/29L1WYj / #PhillyJazz #PJPGallery #DianeTurner #BlocksonCollection #jazzphotoarchive (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7lqA8jPEB/?igshid=1fa364qcvdri4

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On December 7, 1942, Reginald F. Lewis is born in Baltimore, Maryland. Lewis became a partner in Wallace, Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first African American law firm on Wall Street. He later became the owner of TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc., the largest black-owned business in the nation and the first to make more than $1 billion in annual sales. At one point in the 1980s, because of his legal and entrepreneurial work, Reginald Lewis was the richest African American in the United States.

On the same day in 1941, Doris “Dorie” Miller, a cook, Third Class on the U.S. Navy’s USS Arizona, shoots down four Japanese warplanes during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Miller was commended for his actions by the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox received the Navy Cross May 27, 1942.

Sources: "African American History Day by Day" by Karen Juanita Carrillo Images: from the Internet Up: Reginald Lewis Down: Doris Miller

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Blockson Collection Fall Programming

BLOCKSON COLLECTION FALL PROGRAMMING

-- Thursday, November 12, 2:00 PM --

"Celebrating the Life of Mel Dorn Shamlin, Cecil B. Moore Freedom Fighter"

This program examines the life and legacy of Mel Dorn Shamlin, an important Philadelphia activist and participant in the fight to desegregate Girard College. Program Participants include his colleagues, friends, and those who fought against police brutality and racial segregation.

-- Tuesday, November 17, 2:00 PM --

Exhibition Opening & Donor Reception for Curator Ruth E. Fine "Frank Stewart’s Romare Bearden" also featuring Romare Bearden in Philadelphia from the John W. Mosley Photograph Collection

Join us to celebrate the opening of the Blockson Collection exhibition "Frank Stewart’s Romare Bearden" and Ruth E. Fine’s donation of Bearden’s (1911 – 1988) writings, exhibition catalogs, and press clippings. Fine’s gift also includes slides of artworks used for the exhibition catalogue, The Art of Romare Bearden, a show she curated for the National Gallery of Art in 2003. The work is considered one of the best bibliographies on any African American artist.

This exhibition is presented with the Tyler School of Art in conjunction with Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis (1909-1979), curated by Ruth E. Fine and on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from November 13, 2015 through April 3, 2016.

-- Saturday, November 21, 2:00 PM --

"The National Marian Anderson Historical Residence Museum Honors Charles L. Blockson" Marian Anderson Historical Residence Museum, 762 South Marian Anderson Street

Join the Marian Anderson Historical Residence Museum, a nationally registered historic site and former home of the great contralto vocalist, as they honor Charles L. Blockson, scholar, bibliophile, and founder of the Blockson Collection.