Media Fellowship House


The Media Fellowship House is a non-partisan interracial and interfaith organization in Media, Pennsylvania. The house has been used to hold programs for children and senior citizens, and also host civics groups and civil rights activities.

History

The idea for the Fellowship House began when two white women, Dorothy James and Julia Fowler witnessed a waitress in a restaurant refuse service to three African Americans, Marie Whitaker and her daughter and Edna Best. All of the women left the restaurant together and ate in another place. James and Fowler decided to create an interracial fellowship. They founded the house in 1944, in a room over a two car garage. They used that room for nine years. In 1953, they obtained a new, larger building and in 1955 built a new wing using money from the memorial fund for Ellen Starr Brinton.
The Fellowship home almost disbanded in 1970, but the board chose to continue its mission.