Black Manayunk

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Black Manayunk Uncovering Manayunk's Black History Manayunk's story has always been told through its mills, its rowhomes, and its Main Street. Almost never told is who the Black laborers and families were who helped build it. Submit Your Story Join Our Substack Get oral history excerpts, archival finds, and research updates delivered straight to your | Our Story - Black Manayunk Close Search How The Project Was Received From the very first conversations, it was clear this project was needed. Family members started remembering things they hadn’t thought about in years. An uncle mentioned a jitney driver everyone in the neighborhood used to call on. Cousins started asking their own parents questions they’d never thought to ask before. That’s the response we hope to keep building on. Not headlines, but kitchen table conversations. Not a finished history, but an invitation for Manayunk’s Black families to start talking to each other again about what they remember, and to trust that someone

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