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Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia
Exhibition catalog

Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia

Leigh Swigart and Vera Viditz-Ward
2001

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Oral History

This exhibit, originally mounted at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in 2001, explores many aspects of the experiences of the new African immigrants living in our midst. The exhibit was the result of 2 years of fieldwork in the African communities of greater Philadelphia. Anthropologist Leigh Swigart collected oral histories from community members, and Vera Viditz-Ward documented community activities through hundreds of photographs.

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https://hsp.org/history-online/exhibits/extended-lives-the-african-immigrant-experience-in-philadelphiaView
Website with the report and selected images from the 2001 ethnographic and photographic exhibit at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, now absorbed into the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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