Reverend Paul Washington (1921-2002) had a lengthy career as an Episcopalian priest and local activist in the Philadelphia community. But how did his work bring him to be the Episcopalian chaplain at Eastern State Penitentiary, which he deemed "a large and forbidding structure of concrete and steel in the heart of Philadelphia?" And how did he impact the lives of those who lived at the prison?
This video is resented in honor of Black History Month.