So do your teammates. Tobias Harris, a 76ers forward, has extended the olive branch in a social media post, and many say he holds the franchise in the trade price to Philadelphia 76ers, who at this point are quite disdainful of Simmons.
I begged the believing man to show a little compassion. Prior to the visit of Pope Francis b. During eight decades of continuous operation , Pennhurst evolved from a model facility into the subject of tremendous public scandal and controversy before the federal courts ordered it closed and the remaining residents moved elsewhere. Held in in South Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Emancipation Exposition marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with events and exhibits celebrating African American progress.
Pennsylvania gained a reputation as the birthplace of American abolition soon after the American Revolution, but that status caused unrest as debates over slavery grew contentious in the antebellum years. Founded in as the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, the Pennsylvania Prison Society quickly became a leading advocate for the humane and salutary treatment of the incarcerated.
As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. Even as it underwent a painful process of economic restructuring in the years after World War II, Philadelphia garnered national attention from efforts to integrate historically white building trades.
What does it mean if a place loves you back? Urban areas in the United States have always attracted destitute persons, including immigrants and internal migrants fleeing even worse poverty and harsher conditions elsewhere. In the late s, on the heels of the American Revolution, Philadelphia emerged as a national and international leader in prison reform and the transformation of criminal justice practices.
Public bathing became a civil and social imperative in the Philadelphia region and elsewhere in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. Following the cholera epidemic of , which devastated the American population, leaving hundreds of thousands of deaths in its wake, including that of President James K. Puerto Ricans migrated to the Philadelphia area in search of better economic opportunities. A small stream of migration prior to the twentieth century grew during the two world wars, with many more migrants arriving from the s onward.
The centuries-long relationship between the Philadelphia region and Puerto Rico unfolded in four interrelated areas: economic links, political channels, personal networks, and cultural exchange.
Several dynamics shaped those connections over time. Colonialism, first under Spain and later the United States, set the broad context for trade relations and government policies. William Penn , the founder and proprietor of Pennsylvania, had high hopes for Philadelphia.
On July 4, , thirty-nine individuals gathered outside Independence Hall to picket for homosexual rights. This event, one of the earliest organized homosexual rights demonstrations in the United States, sought to remind the public that basic rights of citizenship were being denied to homosexual individuals.
In the s and s, as social and economic tensions arose from early industrialization and from a population that was at once growing rapidly and becoming more racially and religiously diverse, Philadelphia experienced a sharp increase in disorder that it was unprepared to handle. Parishes stand at the center of Roman Catholic religious life. The settlement house movement, a phenomenon of the Progressive era with origins in London, spread to Philadelphia in the s as a large influx of needy immigrants and unsanitary conditions in the city attracted the attention of middle-class, college-educated reformers.
Dancing has been popular in Philadelphia since the city was founded, in spite of religious opposition, especially from Quakers. Far from succumbing to religious criticism, social dancing gained in importance as a way for socially ambitious Philadelphians to demonstrate their gentility. South Asian migration to Greater Philadelphia arrived in small numbers through the s from the group of seven countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Myanmar. In , a group of Jewish high school graduates in Philadelphia formed a basketball team that competed against other local teams.
In the sports world, Philadelphia fans gained a reputation for enthusiasm as they passionately supported winners and losers, publicly booed, and privately cheered. As industrialization began changing the nature of work and society in the United States during the s and s, workers concerned with their low wages, long hours, and the growing power of employers organized to fight for what they believed to be the true ideals of the republic.
From the arrival of Europeans in the seventeenth century through the era of the early republic, treaties were an important tool in diplomacy between native nations and colonial Pennsylvania and later the nascent federal government. Treaties followed indigenous modes of diplomacy, into which colonists introduced, and imposed, the signing of treaty documents.
With a deep abolitionist history and large and vibrant free black population, Philadelphia and the surrounding region played a prominent role in the famed Underground Railroad. The loosely connected organization of white and black people helped hide and guide enslaved people as they sought freedom in the North and Canada. The Union League of Philadelphia, organized in as a political club for the support of the Union cause during the Civil War, developed into the premier urban social club of Philadelphia.
This division of the United States Army, consisting of black soldiers led by white officers, provided much-needed manpower for federal forces in the final two years of the war. Vagrancy, generally defined as the act of continuous geographical movement by the poor, often has been interpreted to signify idleness, unemployment, and homelessness.
Since the colonial era, it has been a driving social concern in the Mid-Atlantic region, where urban centers, including Philadelphia, attracted poor migrants seeking new economic prospects. Military veterans began organizing in the Philadelphia area during the waning days of the Revolutionary War. As Pennsylvania and other northern states became havens for enslaved people who sought to escape bondage, free blacks and sympathetic whites organized Vigilance Associations, which operated Vigilance Committees sometimes called Vigilant Committees to protect fugitives and potential kidnap victims.
With the Walking Purchase of , Pennsylvania officials defrauded the Delaware Indians out of a vast amount of land, perhaps over one million acres, in the Delaware and Lehigh Valleys. Dunn, Mary Maples and Richard S.
The Papers of William Penn, 5 vols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Feldberg, Michael. New York: Oxford University Press, Soderlund, Jean R. Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Share This Page:. Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. City of Brotherly Love. Henry C.
Forrest, , Photograph by Sara Hawken. By Chris Satullo When naming a newborn, you feel the weight of the decision, the fond hope that the right name might provide a push along a hoped-for path. So how did it turn out, this Holy Experiment? But that judgment is neither complete nor fair.
It ignores so much evidence. Topics: Tolerance, Intolerance, and Cooperation. Abolitionism Few regions in the United States can claim an abolitionist heritage as rich as Philadelphia. African American Migration People of African descent have migrated to Philadelphia since the seventeenth century. Fulton, at 2 7. We strongly encourage you to regularly consult with a local attorney as part of your risk management program.
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