NORRISTOWN — On Thursday, August 25, 2022 SEPTA unveiled new historical panels at Elm Street Station that pay tribute to Charles L. Blockson – a nationally recognized expert on the ...

The two women walked to the railroad station, boarded the train and continued their journey to freedom. Harriet Tubman was brave, smart and unperturbable. In his book, Charles Blockson reported ...

NORRISTOWN – Charles Blockson, a Norristown native and a scholar in the field of African-American history, supports the cause to preserve Joe Frazier’s Gym, which he called ‘historically ...

Allen has played Harriet Tubman on stage, and Blockson donated two of the museum’s greatest treasures: a shawl once owned by Tubman and her 19th-century hymnal. The hymnal bears Tubman’s name.

Early in his 70-year career of collecting African-American books and artifacts, noted historian Charles Blockson came across a book on the Underground Railroad that had a profound impact on him ...

As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history. Even as a fourth-grader, Blockson, who is black ...

The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, a vital institution dedicated to preserving African and Black American history, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with a commemorative ...

As a child growing up in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black people had made no contributions to history. Even as a fourth-grader, Blockson, who is black ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Charles Blockson, a preeminent scholar, activist, curator and Montgomery County native, has died at 89. Blockson spent his life collecting and preserving the history ...