This digital scrapbook  uses archives from Temple University and various Philadelphia newspapers to highlight the government's role in implementing a corrupt welfare system in the 1960s and how Black women and organizations organized to resist these systems.

Kayla Simpson

Kayla is a first-year Penn GSE student receiving a M.S.Ed in Education, Culture, & Society. As an aspiring early childhood practitioner, her main goal is to address and advocate for the systemic inequities in early childhood education from a racialized, classed, and gendered perspective. At the same time, she offers beacons of hope by highlighting how the Philadelphia community has historically worked to resist these systems of oppression.