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Wendell Phillips
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Grinnell Stories blog by Dan Kaiser
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Wendell Phillips
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African Americans
Post title: The Wendell Phillips Pew in the Old Stone Church
Date published: April 29, 2016
Link to blog post: https://grinnellstories.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-wendell-phillips-pew-in-old-stone.html
Drake Library Archive Digital File Name: Grinnell Stories/2016-04-29 Wendell Phillips pew in Old Stone Church
Summary: The Old Stone Church in Grinnell had within it the “Wendell Phillips Pew,” named after activist Wendell Phillips and reserved for African Americans. Phillips loaned the local Congregational society money, and in exchange, the church provided Grinnell Congregationalist African Americans with a pew they did not have to rent, which was a common practice of the time. The inscribed, silver plates with Phillips’s name may have been lost in a fire at the Grinnell Historical Museum.
Goodnow Hall, Grinnell College
Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell
Grinnell Historical Museum
Old Stone Church, Grinnell, IA, USA
Phillips, Wendell