Since starting our Adopt-a-Room program, three rooms have been redesigned and dedicated in honor of important activists: Harriet Tubman, Mahatma Gandhi and Rosa Parks. All are connected to Fellowship Farm's history. The Underground Railroad came right through Pottstown, not far from Fellowship Farm, and the Farm has led memorable programs on Harriet Tubman and her role in bringing enslaved African people to freedom. Mahatma Gandhi was the inspiration for the strategies of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, and we are proud that Martin Luther King, Jr. first learned of Gandhi's practice of non-violence while visiting Fellowship House. After the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks visited Fellowship House and Farm. Before her historic refusal to give up her seat, Rosa Parks had been trained in civil disobedience at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, training very similar to that of other Civil Rights era activists at the Farm.

These rooms were created by local students at the high school and college levels. The Farm would like to honor Cesar Chavez in our next Adopt-a-Room project.

For more information about how you can get involved, please call our Executive Director, Rhoda Indictor, at 610-326-3008