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A Reflection on Juneteenth, Education, and Faith Many know, and others are learning, that Juneteenth started as a holiday primarily in Texas, because it commemorated the day that enslaved Texans learned that they were emancipated, freed from the yoke of bondage.... https://margoleewilliamsbooks.com/2026/06/24/a-reflection-on-juneteenth-education-and-faith/
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Another Myth “Buried”: Islay Walden’s Father
This blogpost provides evidence and proof of the relationship between Islay Walden, his sister Sarah, and Henry Ruffin Walden and his siblings.
Many years ago, when I first started my research in Randolph County, North Carolina of my mother’s family and the community they came from, I was discussing Islay Walden and his origins with one of the librarians in the Randolph Room at the Randolph County Regional Library. She told me family members believed his father was William D. Walden, a free person of color, whose family also lived in the…
Frank Sylvester (1894-1980), a Harlem Hell Fighter
Frank Sylvester is standing in the rear. L-R in front: Lute Odette Williams (my aunt), Herbert Randell Williams (my father), and Lela Virginia Farnell Williams (my grandmother). Original in the Lela Farnell Williams Collection at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives Research Center and Museum at Florida A & M University Frank Sylvester, Harlem Hell Fighter with the 369th Infantry in World War I, wasn’t…
Kendrick Harrison Madison, 1919-2010: A member of “The Greatest Generation”
Remembering and honoring my stepfather, a member of the Greatest Generation.
Kendrick, “Kenny,” was my stepfather. He and his wife and family lived in the community where I grew up in New York, East Elmhurst, an African American middle class/professional enclave in North Queens, near LaGuardia Airport. He and my father were good friends. When my father was sick in his last years, Kenny came every day to spend time with him. In fact, Kenny brought us the news that my…
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Gladys West
Overcoming racial and gender barriers, she charted a course that led her to become a “hidden figure” behind the ubiquitous Global Positioning System (GPS). West’s work has had a profound impact on how we navigate the world today. Her story illuminates often-overlooked contributions of diverse voices in scientific progress. So, how’s her work connected to the present?
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52 Ancestors: Strieby Church, Randolph County, North Carolina, Family Reunion
Another look back at Strieby's 2022 Homecoming as we get ready for this year's Homecoming and Open House on the 26-27 August.
Strieby Congregational United Church of Christ in Asheboro, North Carolina, has held Homecoming (Reunion)/Revival services on the fourth Sunday in August, for all of its 144 years so far as we have been able to ascertain. Over the past 10 years we, the descendants of the original community who grew up around the church, established in 1879, have made a concerted effort to preserve, share, and…
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Calvin Hill of Strieby, North Carolina, and the Battle of Manasses
Here's a new post about Calvin Hill from Strieby, Randolph County, NC, who was present at the Second Battle of Manasses, in August 1862.
The 28-30 August (2023) will be the 161st anniversary of the Second Battle of Manasses. About a year ago I learned that Strieby (Randolph County, NC) community member Calvin Hill may have been there. I wanted to know more. Calvin Hill Calvin Hill was one of the twelve children of Ned and Priscilla Hill, Free People of Color, who lived in Hill Town, subsequently named Strieby, in what is now…
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Had a great afternoon with Dr Pauline Lloyd, Director of the Islay Walden Urban Institute for Education in NJ. She was in the Maryland area on business and we had lunch. Of course we talked about Islay Walden and Strieby among many other topics. #striebychurchnc #islaywalden #randolphcountync #islaywaldenurbaninstitute (at Mamma Lucia of Olney) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHhxoQMyyP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
So apparently the $4-5/month tuition at Strieby’s industrial school was comparable to the next closest industrial school, Peabody Academy. However, Peabody was in the town of Troy in Montgomery County NC., while Strieby was in a rural village, about 15 miles from the town of Asheboro. Perhaps more to the point Strieby was 18 miles from Troy and the advantages of being in a rural town with a railroad stop rather than a rural village with only one road in and out. But this ad (and the chapter about it in, “Paradigm of Hope: The Story of Peabody Academy,” pp 109-131) which indicates it didn’t begin its industrial program until 1911, which would be 6 years after Strieby’s. So why didn’t it grow faster? Because it was still in a rural village without a railroad. I’m just speculating. The search continues… #striebychurchnc #peabodyacademytroync #randolphcountync #montgomerycountync #americanmissionaryassociation #striebyacademync https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq6oTinsc0h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I’ve had some confusion over just when Strieby, Salem, and Red House schools were consolidated. My original research indicated it was after 1923, but I’ve found other information since, including this article, which indicates it may not have been until around 1940. This is from 1936, and Strieby and Red House (St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, today) were definitely still separate schools. Salem isn’t mentioned here. I have no idea why. I have no idea what the “interracial fee” is. I think they mean that everyone pays the same whether black or white. #striebychurchnc #randolphcountync #africanamericanschools https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqza6oZs0P8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
So following up on my last post, one year later in Nov 1906, an article appeared in the Randolph Bulletin wherein the editor was noting that the Strieby Post Office, which served the “colored” community, had a “colored” postmaster, the Rev Hawkins, who was the head of the Strieby Academy, “an industrial training school.” And the editor hoped a Democrat would take it away and take it over. (Different names, same story) He noted that the salary was $37.50/yr., which makes the $4-5/mo. tuition and board (see previous post) seem truly expensive. Now I wonder how long it lasted before reverting to an elementary school. #striebychurchnc #randolphcountync #americanmissionaryassociation https://www.instagram.com/p/CqzYkeMMfJG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
In previous research I learned that Strieby expanded their building in 1905. In another newspaper article the interviewee mentioned in passing that there was a “colored industrial school,” but this is the first specific reference I’ve found. This was in the Randolph Bulletin, 12 Oct 1905, Edition 1, p. 3. I must find out more. 🕵🏼. I must say, $4-5/mo “ain’t cheap!”#striebychurchnc #randolphcountync #americanmissionaryassociation https://www.instagram.com/p/CqzFK3kMmA9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Happy Passover to all who are celebrating!!! #🟦standuptojewishhate https://www.instagram.com/p/CqrTpcPsTlX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
On the first, in 1982, my mother pinned a rose on my father’s pillow in honor of their 47th wedding anniversary. It was their last. By noon on the 2nd, my father was dead. My mother’s heart was broken. She was not yet 21 when they married. She never wanted to survive him. She couldn’t imagine her life without him. She lived another 30 years and even remarried. She was married 25 years to her second husband, surviving him by 2 yrs. But she really never got over being without my father. And today, the third, I woke up to the rest of my life without my dad. I love you Daddy and miss you. ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqj71O7saI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Remembering the matriarchs of Strieby: Priscilla Mahockley Hill ( 1792-1911), Katherine Polk Lassiter (1832-1906), and Julia Ritter Walden (1827-1907). All three are buried in Strieby Cemetery. #striebychurchnc #randolphcountync #PriscillaHill #KateLassiter #JuliaWalden https://www.instagram.com/p/CqetqztMQGR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A late posting but I wanted to remember my grandmother, Lela Virginia Farnell Williams, who died this date in 1914, when my father was just 10 years old. She was born to Randel and Sallie (Jacobs) Farnell on 28 September 1876 in Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida. Her father was a Florida Homesteader. She married my grandfather, William Gainer Williams on 12 February 1893. They moved to NYC in 1899 and then to Jersey City, NJ about 1903. My father was born there in 1904. Like her mother before her, she was a dressmaker. She died on Palm Sunday in 1914 from Polycystic kidney disease. She is buried in New York Bay Cemetery, in Jersey City. I am honored that her photo was chosen for the cover of BLACK HOMESTEADERS OF THE SOUTH, in honor of her father, Randel Farnell, a Florida Black Homesteader whose story is told in the book. #womenshistorymonth #suwanneecountyfl #jerseycitynj #blackwomenshistory #blackwomenshistorymatters https://www.instagram.com/p/CqW7Rw4sVFu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
