Pennsylvania Highlands Community College - African American Heritage Collection

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This collection focuses on the heritage of African Americans in the Johnstown region.
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2nd Class Petty Officer Dwight Gibson
United States Navy, U.S. Naval Reserve
Seabees, 1969-1972
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3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald L. Coleman
United States Navy
Basic training in Great Lake, Ill; Naval School in Norfolk, VA; Radio Communications Class A. Assigned to USS Newport News, Ca; Command Crusier, Assigned to USS Sierra DA 18 and USS Tidewater in Newport News, Va.
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85+ Heritage Leaders Celebration Program 2019
African Americans -- History, Older African Americans
Program for 85+ Heritage Leaders Celebration with profiles on elder members of the Black community of Johnstown, including Minnie Broom, Rev. Andrew Tilley, Claudia Jones, Frances Mary Stephens, Mary Neese Jackson, Mildred Amelia (Davis) Jackson, Curt Sanders, Eula Morris, Berb Sitton, Norma Sitton, Elizabeth Vernice (Williams) Jones, Maxine Massey, Rose Reed, Bernice Calhoun, Edith Bush,
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Adult Education Class
African Americans -- Johnstown--Pennsylvania, Education--adult education
Adult education class, sponsored by the WPA at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church 1920s.
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Airman 1st Class Larry Marshall
United States Air Force
Ramey Air Force Base, PR Electrician. Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, Missile Facility Maintenance
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Airman First Class Calvin T. McCray
United States Air Force
Senior Squad Leader, Armarillo, TX 1964-1968
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Annie Brown fairfax
African Americans -- Johnstown--Pennsylvania
Annie Brown Jackson Fairfax, Grandmother of Gloria Hepborn Williams
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Artie Lightfoot
United States Army
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Boyd William
United States Army
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Brown-Fairfax
African Americans -- Johnstown--Pennsylvania
Annie Brown Jackson, Charles Fairfax. Charles Edgar 1893-1978, Agnes Estelle 1900-1962, Beatrice May 1902-1904, James William 1904-1938, Rosa Rebecca (not born) 1906-1977
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Building the Que
African Americans -- Johnstown--Pennsylvania, Quemahoning Dam--Somerset County--Pennsylvania--Construction
Building the Quemahoning Dam in 1909. In the photo is the Marion Steam Shovel Model 20. In the foreground is a Black teamster.
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Cadet Ross Stewart
United States Army, World War II (1939-1945)
An African American veteran from Cambria County, Pa.
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Celebrating Johnstown's Heritage Leaders 2005
African Americans -- History, Older African Americans
Booklet containing profiles on elder members of the Black community of Johnstown, including: Kathleen (White) Brown-Stewart, George Cashaw, Leah Martha (Pridgen) Floyd, Leroy J. Hemphill Sr., Oneil (Joy) White Holmes, Melvin, W. Jefferson, Roy B. Jones, Isabelle (Butler) Robinson, Edgar Thomas, Annie Jo Capel McCray, (L. E.) Leatha Elizabeth (Hemphill) Richardson Hardison
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Celebrating Johnstown's Heritage Leaders 2007
African Americans -- History, Older African Americans
Booklet containing profiles on elder members of the Black community of Johnstown, including: Fannie Mae Cassie Odum Andrews, Guy J. Brock Jr. Lorine Wallace Edwards, Edith Speight Gordon, Blanche Brown Hopper, Ruth Taylor Jackson, Bishop Joseph P. McGauley Jr., Odle O. Tate Pridgen, Elizabeth Banks Tullis, Melda L. Troutman Yates, Deacon John Tullis Jr., Rayford C. Hemphill
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Celebrating Johnstown's Heritage Leaders 2012
African Americans -- History, Older African Americans
Booklet containing profiles on elder members of the Black community of Johnstown, including: Genevieve Anthony, Evelyn D. Banks, Eloise "Dickey" Barnette, Ethel Geraldine "Howling" Carr, Catherine O'Neal Cashaw, Sara Jane (Wheeler) Clyburn-Joy, Anna "Mateo" Gordon, Esther Mae (Ferguson) Gray, Louise Frances "McGinity" Jefferson, Norman Levi Jones Jr., Charles W. Mickens, Mattie Harrison Roberts, Rachel Simms, Thomas E. Simms, Alice Dorothy (Moore) Taylor, Gersielee Mickens Thompson, Deacon Earl Dennis Williams, Charlene Wilson
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Celebrating Johnstown's Heritage Leaders 2014
African Americans -- History, Older African Americans
Booklet containing profiles on elder members of the Black community of Johnstown, including: Jessie Mae (Haselrig) Crawley-Grigsby, Ethel Addelle McLeod Davis, Bertha Mae (Mickens) Hill, Thelma Odessa (Braden) Morris, Bernice M. (Williams) Simms, Ernest L. Williams Sr.
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Celebrating Johnstown's Heritage Leaders 2016
African Americans -- History, Older African Americans
Booklet containing profiles on elder members of the Black community of Johnstown, including: Emily E. Gaines, Rev. Maurice Thomas Williams, Elizabeth (Pollard) Andrews, Willie Bedell, Rosalie (Porcher) Gordon, Gloria M. Harris Johnson, Carolyn G. (Miller) King, Leola Thomas Mattocks, Julia Eva Young Nash, Hilda Griffin Roebuck
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Charlene (Johnson) Fruss
United States Army
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Chorus group
African Americans -- Johnstown--Pennsylvania, Religion-- Church Chorus
Church chorus group in robes
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Church social Trinity Methodist
African Americans -- Johnstown--Pennsylvania, Religion-- Trinity Methodist Church--Johnstown--Pennsylvania
Church social at Trinity Methodist Church
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