PITTSBURGH EVENTS.... COMMEMORATION OF 2000 BLACKS AND MEXICANS FROM JOHNSTOWN

THIS IS A COMMEMORATION OF THE EXPULSION OF 2000 BLACKS AND MEXICANS FROM JOHNSTOWN IN 1923. THIS EVENT WAS HELD IN THE HILL DISTRICT AT TRINITY AME CHURCH ON SEPT. 6, 2023. THERE WERE SEVERAL SPEAKERS WHO SPOKE SUCH AS, REV. DERYCK TINES, REV, PRUDENCE HARRIS, PEGGY WARD, TIM STEVENS, LAURA PERKINS, CARLOS BLANCO, TENE CROOM, JEFF MILLER AND TRACY COX. THESE SPEAKERS WERE FROM SEVERAL GROUPS LIKE B-PEP, UNITED WOMEN OF FAITH, CASA SAN JOSE, THE NAACP TO NAME A FEW. ALL OF THESE GROUPS CAME TOGETHER AND SPOKE ABOUT HOW THIS MAY NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.