Roberto: I know I could not stomach reading that book, but would do it anyway. I do take this subject seriously. I will not compare it to anything else. Take care.

By Roberto (152.163.194.189) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 12:27 pm:

Another book I forgot to mention if you can stomach the horrific stories is "100 Years of lynchings: A Shocking Documentary of Race Violence in America", by Ralph Ginzburg, published by Lancer books, New York, N.Y., 1962. ~ Roberto

By Kansascity (209.242.125.171) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 11:49 am:

African American Historical site...Just type in "Christines Genealogy Website" in your address window for lots of good links and much info...FYI :-

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When documentary producer Greg DeHart agreed to do a show about a black World War II Army unit and its experiences at a Mississippi training base in 1943, he thought he was doing a piece on how urban legends survived over time. But in “Mystery of the 364TH,” which aired on the History Channel on May 20, DeHart has stepped into a 60-year-old controversy: Were rebellious members of the 364th Infantry Regiment (Negro) killed by the score at Camp Van Dorn by their fellow soldiers, and the deaths covered up by the Army? Full Article
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Britain spearheads fight against slave trade reparations
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BRITAIN is leading European opposition to African demands that the slave trade be declared a crime against humanity requiring substantial reparations by the former colonial powers. Almost two centuries after Parliament abolished slavery throughout the British Empire, African nations are pressing for the adoption of a wide-ranging resolution at a conference sponsored by the United Nations on racism to be held in South Africa later this year. Full Article
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Family’s roots run deep, distant
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“Slavery” was an ugly word that Ammie Jenkins never heard growing up on a farm in southwestern Harnett County. As a gradeschooler in the late 1940s, slavery seemed like a distant chapter of history, one that her parents, grandparents and other relatives in Overhills would rather forget. Her family was black, but they owned fertile tobacco fields and orchards of pears and grapes. Slaves didn’t own land, Jenkins remembers thinking. Slaves were poor. Full Article
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Old manuscript reveals lives of slaves
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The arrival of 28 freed slaves who were brought from Jamaica to be educated and employed in Philadelphia is documented in startling detail in a 1795 manuscript recently acquired by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Full Article
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Africa Still a Frontier for Slavery
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As he sat in the well-maintained home of a friend in Mauritania, Africa, Clarence Davis couldn't help but notice the flurry of activity around him. There was a woman whose sole function seemed to be to open and close the front door, as well as teens and younger kids caring for the animals out back. Davis, a New Yorker, wondered aloud: "Who are these people?" The answer from his friend shocked him. "They are my slaves," his black friend replied matter-of-factly. Full Article
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Diverse hands work to restore old cemetery
Posted by admin on Sunday, May 06 @ 21:08:26 EDT

Nearly 15 months ago, five people gathered in a city planner's office to talk about restoring a church cemetery. What they didn't realize then is that the site - known as the Old Campground Cemetery - would become the center of a communitywide push to preserve history. On April 28, dozens of people with diverse backgrounds worked together to clear the brush-covered Old Campground Cemetery. The site contains the final resting places of many long ago Cabarrus County African American residents. Full Article
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FSU medical school built on deception
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What do the American institution of slavery and the Florida State University medical school have in common? The answer is that both were created by the exploitation of black people. Slavery's exploitation was obvious. A thorough historical review of the medical school reveals that FSU's exploitation was just as obvious. Full Article
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Was reggae icon Bob Marley singing entirely in English when he recorded his classic "Trenchtown Rock"? Linguists say no -- the Jamaican singer was using patois, a mixture of English and West African tongues spoken by slaves who were brought to this Caribbean island by European colonizers. Now, nearly 40 years after Jamaica won independence from Britain, some people are arguing that patois should be granted official status along with English. Full Article
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The Other Side of the Family
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For more than a decade, he sought to piece together the murky details about his family's mixed racial past -- and, in the process, build a bridge over the chasm between white and black. Full Article
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Consensus elusive at Monticello
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The food was delicious and the sky over Monticello has thus far cooperated. On that much, the crowd agreed. But consensus over who is and who isn't descended from Thomas Jefferson was harder to find at a family reunion yesterday. Today, the Monticello Association is expected to again postpone a decision on whether to bestow membership on those who say they are descended from Jefferson through his alleged liaison with slave Sally Hemings. Although they were to be invited to the meeting, Hemings' descendants were to be prohibited from discussion or voting. Full Article
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GOP Joins Push for Black Museum
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Top congressional Republicans have joined an effort for a national museum recognizing black Americans, giving the longtime proposal a boost. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and leader during the civil rights era, plans to introduce legislation to create the museum Thursday, his twelfth year offering the proposal. A companion plan is being filed in the Senate. Article
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Archeologists Tell of Brooklyn Slave Dwelling
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Archeologists say they have discovered the first slave dwelling ever found in New York City, a hidden garret in a 300-year-old former farmhouse in Brooklyn. The space may also have been used years later as a pre-Civil War stopover for slaves escaping via the Underground Railroad. Article
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Lincoln University archivists find historical gems
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There is a tattered 1936 letter from agricultural scientist George Washington Carver on whether peanut oil cures arthritis. And there's a fading World War II poster belonging to poet Langston Hughes advertising a "Negro Freedom Rally" in New York for an admission price of 44 cents. There is also a black-and-white photo from Graduation Day 1946 of Albert Einstein, his wild gray hair in a tangle, receiving an honorary degree from Lincoln. Article
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Back to her roots
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Lalita Tademy didn't set out to write an illuminating book. Her aim, as she tells The Journal's David Whetstone, was to find out about her ancestors born into slavery. It drove her to quit a high-powered job. Article
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Vision for small, poor black school has grown into $8.5 million trust
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On a hilltop where it's believed slaves once went to the auction block, black students now go to school. That was the dream of a Connecticut socialite who came to Alabama more than a century ago and helped found the Calhoun School at the urging of legendary educator Booker T. Washington. When Charlotte Thorn died in 1932, she left a trust fund to the school of $400,000. That trust fund is now worth $8.5 million and is a source of pride among the 350 mostly black students on the Calhoun campus, a collection of brick buildings with blue roofs on a hilltop in the midst of the beautiful rolling landscape 30 miles south of Montgomery. Article
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By Ishvara (38.163.112.88) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 10:56 am:

It must have really irratated those women that such heinious crimes were being committed in their names, especially when it really had nothing to do with them at all, just an excuse WM used to further degrade and strip the spirit away from a people desparately trying to get some semblance of order and harmony in their ravaged communities.

By Kansascity (209.242.125.104) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 10:50 am:

That is a good question, Roberto. I have often wondered about that myself. I just suppose it is logic...nothing magical...trends that are coming are not hard to see.
The media is all inter-connected. I notice what I find on the Internet (what I am interested in), the newspapers, talk shows find the same material to discuss...everyone is interconnected.

By Roberto (64.12.105.158) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 10:28 am:

Kansascity:

Some of my sources are the following:

(1) White Papers for White America, by Calvin C. Hernton, Garden city: Doubleday 1966.

(2) Following the Color Line, by Ray Stannard Baker, Harper & Row, 1964.

(3) Evers, Charles Evers, New York: World, 1971.

(4) Killers of the Dream, New York: W.W. Norton, 1949.

(5) Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and intellectual Life, Chicago: University Press, 1959

(6) The Classic book, "Sexual Life Between Blacks and Whites: The Roots of Racism", by Beth Day, World Publishing, 1972. Note: This book is where I get a lot of my facts and it refers me to other sources. ~ Roberto

Kansascity: Question, where do you get a lot of your information on events so quickly that others are unaware of before it hits the street? ~ Roberto

By Kansascity (209.242.125.7) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 09:43 am:

Where do you get this information, Roberto? I want to do some more research on this. It is important to understand what was happening then and why. With that kind of legacy, how can IR couples overcome the fear that their families may have for them. Weren't white women also executed for their involvement with black men? They also paid a price.

By Roberto (205.188.195.42) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 09:08 am:

- The greatest numbers of black male victims who were lynched to protect "white womanhood" were in the states of Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas.

- In the 3,811 recorded lynchings of black males between 1889 and 1941, with the overall justification of protecting white women from rape, rape (actual or suspected) accounted for less than sixteen percent.

- Although the victims of lynchings were not exclusively black men between 1882 and 1946, according to figures compiled by the Tuskegee Institute, 4,715 people were lynched in the United States, three fourths of them were black men.

- The greatest numbers of recorded lynchings occurred in two major waves, one in the early 1900 (anybody knows why?) and the second in the early 1920's immediately following World War 1, (again, anybody knows why?)

- In the past decades, lynchings were reported in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1975, 1983 and the recent James Byrd case if you consider that a lynching.

- Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith shows in the historical record that although lynchings did become less frequent in the 1950's and 1960's, they continued to occur.

- Desexing the black male body in lynchings by castrating, sexual mutilation, and sexual torture was the norm.

Note: A factoid, A group of leading southern white churchwomen banded together during the violent, lynching-filled days following World War 1 and formed the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, whose stated purpose was to make it quite clear that the women of the South had never asked for this grisly protection from black men. The group worked zealously and had considerable success in saving the lives of scores of black men by averting mob violence, by anticipating it, and spiriting potential black male victims off to safety. In Homerville, Georgia, ninety-five percent of the white women in that town signed a petition requesting clemency to spare the life of a black man being held in a jail for the criminal assault of a white women.

I wish more black men and white women today would at least know a little of the violent history of white women and black men. ~ Roberto