Ruth L. Bennett was an American social reformer, women's club founder and the first president of the Chester, Pennsylvania branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She founded the Ruth L. Bennett Improvement Club, the Ruth L. Bennett Community House for Colored Women and Girls and the Wilson Nursery to help migrant black women from the southern United States who moved to Chester as part of the Great Migration. She served as president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs.
Bennett at age 81
Bennett (left) directing the Ruth L. Bennett Improvement Club in 1938
Ruth L. Bennett House
Wilson Nursery next to the Ruth L. Bennett House
Calvary Baptist Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)
Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist Church founded in 1879 in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and the American Baptist Churches, USA.
Calvary Baptist Church in 2018
Pennsylvania historical marker in front of Calvary Baptist Church