Individual Film Price:

Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $49.95
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $49.95
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $5.95

Precious Places Compilation Price:

This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 6 compilation DVD.

Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $139.00
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $79.00
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $20.00

Scribe Video Center Program:

The Precious Places Community History Project is a community oral history project inviting members of the Philadelphia region's many neighborhoods to document the buildings, public spaces, parks, landmarks and other sites that hold the memories of our communities and define where we live. Precious Places teaches the video production process to participating groups, fostering projects authored by those who intimately know the featured neighborhoods.

Humanities Scholar: Dr. NaOme Richardson

Production Facilitator: Marie Alarcon

Film Story:

Founded in 1911, the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity was the first Greek Letter organization for African American students.  The fraternity established a branch in Philadelphia in 1951 at a time of growing racial tension and widespread segregation.  In the years that followed, the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity house became more than a campus fixture; it served as an anchor and gathering place for its community in West Philadelphia and for civil rights leaders across the city. 

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