Great Leopard Skating Rink, 1959. A popular local hangout, the Great Leopard adheres to a strict policy of segregation, offering only 2 nights a week for African American use. The rink becomes integrated as the result of protests in 1963.
Pennsylvania Military College acquired this house in 1963. Loveland Hall housed the Exploratory Studies, Honors Programs and offices for Theatre Widener. The building was named in honor of a distinguished graduate of Pennsylvania Military...
Chester Civil Rights ""Sit Down"" Protest. Stanley Branche and the militant Chester Committee for Freedom Now begin nearly a year of demonstrations in 1963, largely focusing on school desegregation. This image shows a March 1964...
Pennsylvania Military College acquired this house, a twin with Loveland Hall, in 1963. It housed Career Advisory and Planning Services and the offices for the Cooperative Education. Victory Hall was demolished in 2010 to prepare for the...
Built in 1964 this dormitory was named Grasselli Hall in recognition of Caesar Grasselli's contribution to the college. Grasselli Hall today is a home for resident students.
Eisenhower Visits Campus, 1963. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first PMC Honorary 1st Captain. John Lance Geoghegan presents General Eisenhower with a plaque and the sabre that is symbolic of the rank.
Chalmer Gatlin Kirkbride was born in 1906 near Tyrone in the Oklahoma territory to pioneer parents and grew up in Caney, Kansas. By 1930, at the age of 23, Kirkbride completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Chemical Engineering at the...
Bernard Lee Schwartz was born on June 18, 1914 and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He briefly attended Lehigh University until the Depression forced him to drop out and seek employment.
For four years Schwartz worked as a sales engineer at...
Old Main
Construction 1867 Rebuilt 1882 after Fire
Old Main Annex
Construction 1882
Hyatt Observatory
Construction 1892
Summer 2008
Drill Hall/ Gymnasium
1920
Alumni Lodge
1903
1960
Hyatt Hall
Construction 1868 Acquired 1917
Armory
Construction...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Chester (Pa.) -- History; Civil Rights -- African Americans -- History
George Raymond was the president of the Chester branch of the NAACP (National Association of Colored People) for nearly twenty-five years. This scrapbook, created by Raymond, chronicles the Chester Civil Rights movement during the 1940s, 1950s,...
John Lance Geoghegan, Vietnam War 1959–1975. Geoghegan (PMC 1963) serves in Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry. He dies in combat during the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965. He is portrayed in the book We Were Soldiers Once, and Young that...
Robert F. Kennedy speaks at a Congress of Racial Equality rally, 1963. A strong advocate for civil rights, he serves as attorney general for his brother, President John Kennedy, and later becomes a U.S. senator. During a promising presidential...
March on Washington, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a landmark civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C. His “I Have a Dream” speech mesmerizes more than 250,000 marchers, as well as millions on national television. In 1968, James Earl...
John H. Tilelli Jr., Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm 1990–1991. In 1990, Tilelli (PMC 1963) is deployed with the 1st Calvary Division for service in Desert Shield and Desert Storm, military actions that repel the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He...
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Chester (Pa.) -- History; Civil Rights -- African Americans -- History
George Raymond was the president of the Chester branch of the NAACP (National Association of Colored People) for nearly twenty-five years. This scrapbook, created by Raymond, includes photographs, articles from local and national newspapers,...
