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Citizens-Community Task Force

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Date: 1997-12-06
Announcement of a community meeting at Providence Friends Meeting. Guest speaker: Dr. Laird Warner, Superintendent of Rose Tree Media School District.

Citizens-Community Task Force

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Date: 1998 ca.
Page 1 of Citizens-Community Task Force brochure (annual report) outlining their mission and accomplishments. Mary Edwards, Founder and Chairman, Walter E. Robinson, Jr. Esq., Vice Chairman, Juanita Edwards, Public Relations Coordinator, Lewis…

Citizens-Community Task Force

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Date: 1998 ca.
Page 2 of Citizens-Community Task Force brochure (annual report) outlining their mission and accomplishments. Mary Edwards, Founder and Chairman, Walter E. Robinson, Jr. Esq., Vice Chairman, Juanita Edwards, Public Relations Coordinator, Lewis…

Media Interfaith Council, meeting minutes

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Date: 1998-01-14
Mary Edwards spoke about developing clergy study circles to address racism in the community, and about the Unity Rally Day sponsored by the Citizens-Community Task Force.

Citizens-Community Task Force

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Date: 1998-03-21
Announcement of a community meeting at Media Elementary Schoolcelebrating Women's History Month.

Citizens-Community Task Force

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Date: 1998-03-31
Announcement of the First Community-Wide Study Circle Training to be held at the First United Methodist Church. Facilitator, Burton Freeman, New Castle, Delaware YMCA.

Proclamation from Borough of Media to the Citizens-Community Task Force

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Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1998-05-21
Signed by Mayor Bob McMahon proclaiming the month of June 1998 "Media Borough Unity Month."

Clarence D. Bell, citation

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Date: 1998-06
Citation from Senator Bell commending those who work for unity in Delaware County and Chester County.

Letter from Matthew J. Ryan

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1998-06-11
Speaker of the PA House of Representatives, Matthew J. Ryan offering support for Media's Unity Day and encouraging all Media citizens to participate and to dedicate themselves to the ideals of democracy, equality, and freedom for all people.

Program for Citizens-Community Task Force, Unity Day, 1998

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Date: 1998-06-13
Event was held at Delaware County Court House.

Flyer for Citizens-Community Task Force Unity Day, 1998

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Date: 1998-06-13
Event was held at Delaware County Court House.

Matthew J. Ryan's support for Unity Day

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Date: 1998-06-14
Matthew J. Ryan , speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, offering support for Media's [2nd annual] Unity Day and sending regrets that he is unable to attend.

Unity Day program, 1998

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Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1998-06-14
Sponsored by the Citizen-Community Task Force

History of the Delaware County Section of the National Council of Negro Women

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Date: 1998-11-07
Presented at the Third African American Womens Conference at Cheyney University. Probably written by Mary M. Edwards

Newspaper article about hate crime in Delaware County

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Date: 1998-11-10
Article by Meredith Fischer about a swastika spray painted on a Valley Forge National Historic Park war memorial to Black Revolutionary War Soldiers.

Representative James R. Roebuck, memorandum

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Date: 1999
Page 1 of memo from the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus about the East Coast Regional Summit on Africa., held at the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center

Representative James R. Roebuck, memorandum

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Date: 1999
Page 1 of memo from the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus about the East Coast Regional Summit on Africa., held at the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center

Police/Community Relations Workshop, agenda

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Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-01-20
Program was facilitated by Ada Montare, Senior Conciliator, Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice.

Police/Community Relations Workshop, agenda

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Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-01-20
Program was facilitated by Ada Montare, Senior Conciliator, Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice.

Flower advertising talk with the superintendent of schools about racial incidents

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Date: 1999-05-19
Flyer inviting the community to talk with Dr. Laid Warner, Superindendent of Rose Tree Media School District about tragic events both locally and nationally. Sponsored by the Rose Tree Media School District and the Citizens-Community Task Force

Unity Day '99 Theme Song

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Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1999-06-19
"Wake Up Everybody," by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes with Teddy Pendergrass

Unity Day '99, press release

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Date: 1999-06-19
Written by Juanita Edwards. Events were held at Barrall Field in Media.

Flower for "Who We Are, How We Lived" television program

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Date: 1999-12-18
Flyer for this joint presentation by 6-ABC and the Philadelphia Inquirer, hosted by Jim Garner

Mary M. Edwards, invitation

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Date: 1999-12-18
Invitation to the public to view Millennium Philadelphia: The Last 100 Years, which included a segment on the Edwards Family

Growing up in Media, Pa.

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Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 2000 ca.
A memoir of the 1950s and 1960s by Juanita Edwards. [See notes for entire text.]