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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?

The truth behind Oscarville and the violent removal of Black residents from Forsyth County years before Lake Lanier was built

Just before 1912, there were nearly 1,100 Black residents in Forsyth County — with 58 of those residents being landowners. By the end of 191

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November 2 - Celebrating Dia de los Muertos

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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!

Houston tore through a historic Black cemetery in the 1960s. Now, workers have found more remains.

Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city failed to locate and move all of the remains when it...

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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!

Brief biographies of the members of the first officer training course for African Americans in the U.S. Navy. In January 1944, there were ne

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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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Title

[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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Title

[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

142

Hoar

Judy

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Clinton Melton: A Man Who Was Killed In Mississippi Just 3 Months After Emmett Till

The murder of Emmett Till 65 years ago this week became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Radio Diaries tells a lesser-known story o

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How about a book title to close out 2022?!

A Stunning Graphic Novel Uncovers The History Of Enslaved Women Who Fought Back

Wake, by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, blends passion and fact to set a new standard for illustrated history: Not just action scenes of da

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Texas soldier reported missing in action during Korean War now accounted for

A Texas soldier who was reported missing in action during the Korean War has now been accounted for and is set to be buried at Arlington Nat

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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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White Utah woman shares journey of discovering her Black roots

A white woman who was raised in Utah shares her experience as she learns more about her Black roots along the way.A wise man from centuries