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6 unusual facts about Liberty Hall


Arnold Josiah Ford

Ford officially functioned as director of UNIA Band, Orchestra, Band of the African Legion, and the Liberty Hall Choir.

Owen Rand Kenan

At Owen's death his unmarried daughter Annie Kenan became Mistress of Liberty Hall.

Samuel Doak

He grew up on a frontier farm and began his education with Robert Alexander, who later founded the Academy of Liberty Hall (now Washington and Lee University).

There he studied theology under Samuel Stanhope Smith, president, and completed his theological training in 1777 at Liberty Hall.

United Black Association for Development

UBAD also found itself under fire from many of the established groups uncomfortable with its message of Black Power; the local unit of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) stopped renting them its Liberty Hall in August 1969 under pressure from the government.

Young Labour League

It had the only stall at Liberty Hall, Dublin, at the Party's annual conference at which Brendan Corish announced that: "The Seventies will be Socialist".



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Henry Ruffner

During his presidency, such speakers as Princeton educator Archibald Alexander (himself a graduate of Liberty Hall, the predecessor of Washington College), Minister Elias Lyman Magoon, and Professor George Dabney delivered graduation addresses at Washington College.

Irish Women Workers' Union

Helena Moloney, an Abbey actor and nationalist, became involved and with Constance Markievicz helped to organise soup kitchens at Liberty Hall during the dispute.