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CLAIM YOUR KIN
Where A Few African American Genealogy Hobbyists in Texas Collaborate
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Students at Whittier School at the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) learn to knit for the war effort. August 5, 1918.
Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs
File Unit: Colleges and Universities - Hampton Institute
Image description: Four girls and a young woman sit on a porch. Each has a ball of yarn on her lap and is knitting. They are all wearing light-colored dresses. The teaching institute and associated school were created to serve the Black community; all of the people in the photo are Black.
Transcription: WAR ACTIVITIES OF HAMPTON INSTITUTE, HAMPTON, VA. / Whittier School girls learning to knit for war sufferers.
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What really happened to Oscarville, Georgia USA?
#oscarvillegeorgia#vanishingblacktowns#africanamericanhistory#africanamericanexperience#unitedstateshistory#ethnic cleansing
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This is the historic cemetery (Evergreen Negro Cemetery) in Houston, Texas where my 2X great-grandfather, Richard Smith, and other maternal ancestors were buried when supposedly all of their graves were dug up and moved in the 1960's to make way for the expansion of Lockwood Drive. One thing I know for sure is that my family was never notified when these family members' bodies were moved nor were they told about their final resting place.
Fast forward to a recent news story published in The Houston Chronicle on February 7, 2023 below, I'm convinced more than ever that my ancestors were never moved at all. The developer and city planners just removed the headstones and expanded Lockwood Drive right over them all!
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These are the regulations for the Teachers of the Freeman Schools in Texas.
"United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TH-V9JD-7?cc=2427894&wc=31S1-FMS%3A1556264002%2C1556266801 : 1 August 2016), Texas > Roll 15, Monthly reports from teachers and subassistant commissioners, June 1869-Apr 1870 > image 305 of 1420; citing multiple NARA microfilm publications (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1969-1978).
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Ever heard of The Golden Thirteen? They are the US Navy's version of the Tuskegee Airmen. Know your history!
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Lyric with a Lolipop by Bisa Butler
From the Museum of Art and Design, NYC:
“Bisa Butler creates portraits in fiber, applying concepts she absorbed as a painting student at Howard University to make pieced quilts that celebrate Black life and history. Working from photographs, she layers brightly patterned cotton textiles associated with the African continent to illuminate the personalities of her subjects. Butler's father is from Ghana and her mother is from New Orleans, where early forebears were enslaved people. She learned to sew from her mother and grandmother.
Lyric with a Lollipop is one of three portraits made from photographic contact sheets showing the daughter of music teacher Keresse Dorcely, Butler's former colleague and dear friend. Butler purchased many of the fabrics seen here in Johannesburg, South Africa, including the shweshwe cloth of Lyric's vest. To make the skirt, she used a Dutch wax pattern known as "Sugar Cane," a reference to the lollipop Lyric is enjoying, the sugar cane industry's reliance on slave labor, and the ancestors who harvested the product. The contrasting contour lines on Lyric's face acknowledge Butler's Ghanaian grandmother's facial scarification, an identifier of familial affiliation, while the choice of black velvet and lace flowers celebrates the beauty of natural African hair.”
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On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
As police officers dragged her from the bus, she shouted again, and again, “It’s my constitutional right.” She was jailed and charged with violating segregation laws, disturbing the peace and assaulting a police officer. She pleaded not guilty, but was convicted.
Colvin’s act of protest happened 9 months before Rosa Parks famously sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, but Colvin’s age and lack of experience in the civil rights movement rendered her act of bravery and defiance all but forgotten in the telling of civil-rights history.
𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
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[African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico.
Names
DeMarsico, Dick, photographer
Created / Published
1963.
Headings
- African Americans--Civil rights--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970
- Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970
- Women--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970
- Policewomen--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970
Headings
Gelatin silver prints--1960-1970.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints--1960-1970
Notes
- Title devised by Library staff.
- NYWT&S staff photograph.
- Date stamped on verso: Aug 20 1963.
- Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
- Published in: "African Americans" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
- pp/rfcr
Medium
1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Call Number/Physical Location
NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Racism--New York City [item] [P&P]
Source Collection
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
cph 3c34715 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c34715
Library of Congress Control Number
2004676670
Reproduction Number
LC-USZ62-134715 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known copyright restriction. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
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[Susie King Taylor, known as the first African American Army nurse]
Summary
Photograph shows portrait of Susie King Taylor, who served more than three years as nurse with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, although officially enrolled as a laundress. She also taught children and adults to read while serving with the regiment.
Created / Published
Boston : Published by the author, 1902 [from a photograph taken between 1862 and 1866]
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
ppmsca 57593 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.57593
Library of Congress Control Number
2018663038
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-ppmsca-57593 (digital file from original photo)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
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Frederick Douglass and other activists asked for a hearing before the Judiciary Committee regarding “. . . the lawless outrages committed in some of the Southern States upon persons accused of crimes, but who are denied the ordinary means of establishing their innocence by due process of law.” i.e., lynching. January 3, 1893.
Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate
Series: Committee Papers of the Committee on the Judiciary
File Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents of the Committee on the Judiciary from the 52nd Congress
Transcription:
United States Senate,
WASHINGTON, D. C., , 189 .
[handwritten] The undersigned citizens of the
United States pray the Hon. Senate
of the United States to instruct
the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate to grant a hearing of
a statement in respect to the
lawless outrages committed
in some of the Southern States
upon persons accused of
crimes, but who are denied
the ordinary means of establish-
ing their innocence by due
process of law.
[signed] Frederick Douglass
[signed] Francis J. Grinke
[signed] Walter R. Brooks
[signed] Mary Church Terrell.
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52d Congress
2d Sess.
Memoriae
Citizens of the United States praying a hearing before the Judiciary Committee in respect to the lawless outrages committed in some of the Southern States upon persons accused of crime.
Feb 3 1893
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
[different handwritting] 52A-J42
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Judy
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Wishing you & yours today a very . . .
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My photo collage, THE ANCESTORS," came in 1st Place in the Photo Contest at the Texas State Genealogical Society Family History Conference, Nov 4-5, 2022!
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