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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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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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S05 E29: The U.S. Congressional Slaveholder Database with Julie Weil

S05 E29: The U.S. Congressional Slaveholder Database with Julie Weil

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5crk_3LsQA%5B/embedyt%5D More than 1,800 people who served in the U.S. Congress in the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries owned human beings at some point in their lives, according to a Washington Post investigation of censuses and other historical records. The U.S. is still grappling with the legacy of their embrace of slavery. The Washington Post’s…

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Some US historians will have you believe the federal holiday, Memorial Day (formerly known as Decoration Day), observed on the last Monday in May was first observed on May 30 from 1868 to 1970.

BUT, The Martyrs of the Race Court -- was the first observance of this celebration as reported below in The Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) · 2 May 1865, Tue · Page 2

The photograph below by Mathew B. Brady and his team of photographers during the Civil War is of the Club House at the race course where these union officers were confined before they were buried behind the club house in shallow mass graves.

The photo below shows that the shallow mass graves where the union soldiers were buried were raised with the entire area enclosed by a fence that was erected by 24 black men known as the Friends of the Martyrs and who were members of the Patriots Association of Colored Men

Below is a photo of the hundreds of black children, men and women who matched with honor over the burial ground strowing the graves of 257 union soldiers with flowers as they passed by.

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On this day (May 23rd), 101 years ago my maternal grandpatents, Joseph Chapple and Estella Smith were married by Justice of the Peace, Leon Lush, in Houston, Harris County, Texas. https://t.co/r9LT73gYRU

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#60Minutes #BlackHistory

Man unknowingly buys former plantation house where his ancestors were enslaved.

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📢May 2022 Children’s & YA New Releases by Black Authors

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📚Black Children’s Books and Authors (BCBA) is a nonprofit. Our mission is to promote awareness of children’s and young adult literature by Black authors. 

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LOUISE NEWSOM HUBBARD

Today is the birthday of my paternal grandmother, Louise Newsome Hubbard. She was born 113 years ago in Washington County, Texas to Henry Newsom and Olivia Moten.

Learn more about her - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67580218/louise-hubbard

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Colin Powell… May You Rest In Peace.

CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #colinpowell #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke #rip #sip https://www.instagram.com/p/CVK8cahrwU_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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July 25 is National Parents Day.

Wishing John & Carrie (Chapple) Taylor a heavenly Happy Parents Day!

"One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” – Jim DeMint

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Happy National Cousins Day to us (Liv & Cece)!

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A Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)

A photo of my maternal grandmother, Estella (Smith) Chapple (standing left), and a couple of her lady friends, or relatives, that I have not been able to identify to this day. But what makes this photo such a special one in my collection is that it’s a real photo postcard, a service introduced by Kodak in 1907.

According to Patty’s Antique Postcards,

"Real photo postcards are actual photographs that were taken and processed from a ‘clean’ negative plate and printed in a darkroom on postcard paper. Unlike printing and copying methods used today, these photo’s do not contain ‘pixel’s or ‘dots’ when viewed closely. Void of the ‘middle-man’, these images are clean and crisp.”

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Those Places Thursday: New York, New York!

Carrie (Chapple) Taylor and her step-mother, Ethel (Abrams) Chapple strolling the streets of the Big Apple - Manhattan, New York!

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Those Places Thursday

THE NEGRO MOTORIST GREEN- BOOK

Black people have been defined by travel, displacement, and resistance. - Kevin Young, curator of the Schomburg Exhibit - Traveling While Black: A Century of Pleasure & Pain & Pilgrimage

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Click to listen or download this LibriVox recording of The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 by Various African Americans

The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 : Various : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

LibriVox recording of The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 by Various. This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coom

This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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Blue Mondays

"Thou shall not kill" -- Exodus 20:13

Woman Killed

Mrs. Estella Thomas, 28, of 2402 Altoona St became involved in arguments with two men at the same time early Monday – and was shot to death.

Oia Henson, 26, of 2412 1/2 Altoona, a Texas Southern University student, said the shooting was accidental, that he had got his German Luger to protect her and that it discharged accidentally. But the police charged him in Justice of the Peace Dave Thompson’s court with murder.

The other man, L. K. Brown, 36, said he and Mrs. Thomas were just having a discussion about the $20 she owed him for furniture when Henson and Mrs. Thomas got into an argument and she was shot. A bullet hit her in the face and she was dead when the police arrived.

The discussions and the shooting occurred in her home just before 2 AM.

Source Citation:

“Woman Killed,” Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas, 31 August 1954.

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Sentimental Sundays: Dad and His Fedora

"Cock your hat – angles are attitudes.” — Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra’s quote above sums up exactly how my father wore his FEDORA – cocked at an angle with attitude. Daddy LOVED his fedora hats and wore them with their pinch-front teardrop-shaped crowns, front brims “snapped down,” and back brims “snapped up!”