Archivist

Margaret Jerrido

Bishop James Alexander Shorter was responsible for organizing the AME church in AR, LA, and TX.

  • Birth Date: February 4, 1817

Since her retirement in 2007, Margaret Jerrido is an archives consultant and archivist for the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church   Prior to her retirement,  she was the Director of the Urban Archives in the Paley Library at Temple University for 17 years. Assistant Archivist in the Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Director of the Black Women Physicians Project at the former Medical College of Pennsylvania. 

Ms. Jerrido has conducted workshops on how to preserve all formats of historical materials, planned workshops and lead discussion groups on how to form an archives, designed an oral history workshop, and participated in panels on how to do oral histories. She has done presentations on the history of African-American women and minorities in medicine.  She has written and was awarded grants from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, William Penn Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. 

She is a member of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group (DVAG) and the Mid-Atlantic Archives Conference (MARAC).  She was the first Chair of the former group and has been involved in the latter holding various offices and presenting a number of papers on various aspects of collecting, preserving and maintaining historical records. She is a Board member of the Lincoln Day Educational Center and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

Publications

Following are some of the publications which Ms. Jerrido has written for, contributed to or edited:

  • Directory of African American Collections in Greater Philadelphia and Selected Suburban Areas
  • PACSCL Photograph Directory
  • The Encyclopedia of African American Cultural and History
  • Black Women in American: an historical encyclopedia
  • Handbook of American Women’s History