The Friends of the Tanner House are joining with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to host a fundraiser to help raise $70,000 to pay to stabilize the historic Tanner House in Philadelphia.
Morton, who now lives in Atlanta, where Tanner also once lived, said he will share excerpts from a new documentary and portrait about Tanner at theAlthough Tanner and Morton had very different family backgrounds — Tanner’s parents were highly educated and Morton’s were impoverished — he said he has found a lot of similarities between Tanner and himself.
“I’m certainly delighted to see the attention being paid to what is the history of our family, our comment and our nation. It’s all intertwined for me,” said Lewis Tanner Moore, Henry Tanner’s grandnephew. That discussion came about as community leaders began to organize and formed the Friends of the Tanner House to save the house at 2908 W. Diamond St. in Strawberry Mansion from possible demolition. The Inquirer“I knew of Mr. Tanner. That I knew. I even heard of Bishop [Benjamin Tucker] Tanner, his father,” Pryor told Inquirer reporter Zoe Greenberg., was the first Black person to earn a doctorate in economics from an American university — the University of Pennsylvania in 1921.
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