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First Friday Rent Party - Chris Stevens at Arch Street Friends Meeting House
Courtesy of Homer Jackson | Posted on March 11, 2016
Where
Arch Street Friends Meeting House
320 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
Map
(215) 627-2667
When
Fri, April 1, 2016
8:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Christopher Stevens
trumpetAbout
PJP is partnering with the Arch Street Meetinghouse, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great Migration: The historic period when millions of Black Americans left the South and moved to the Northeast, Midwest and West. with our First Friday Rent Party Series. The Rent Party was an invention of Great Migrationeers who sometimes faced low wages and high rents. Many found themselves having to pull together a plan to pay the rent. The plan was a house party with liquor, food, music and dancing, all with an admission price. The events happened weekly all over America, whereever these transplanted Southerners traveled....