Tag: Georgia

  • The youthful branch secretary who sparked this drive, Walter Francis White, called this “our first fight and our first victory and … we have only begun to fight.”

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…

  • The first fugitive slave narrative in American history

  • Employee’s Change in Racial Self-Identification Cannot Support Discrimination Claim if Employer Unaware of Change JD Supra Business Advisor 2015-10-05 Jonathan Crotty Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina Michael Vanesse Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina In recent years, more Americans have begun identifying themselves as biracial or of mixed…

  • Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.

  • Down Blige Road: Where There’s No Place Like Home Richmond Hill Reflections Richmond Hill, Georgia Volume 10, Number 4 (September 2014) pages 57-60 Leslie Ann Berg (Photos by Callie Beale Photography) Richmond Hill’s history is engrained deep within the walls of its old buildings, street names, and its land. But there is another place where…

  • Black History Month celebrates both race and ethnicity The Red & Black University Georgia Student Newspaper Athens, Georgia 2014-07-02 Mariya Lewter, Sphomore Decatur, Georgia As a person of “mixed” race, I’ve always found it difficult to truly racially identify myself. Not because I don’t know who I am, but because others refused to accept my…

  • Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1 Reality Asserts Itself The Real News Network 2013-10-23 Paul Jay, Host Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the…

  • A Reply By Rev. S. P. Richardson D. D. to a Sermon By Dr. Talmage, Preached in Brooklyn, N.Y. March 3rd, on “The United States, Immigration Ethology, and the Amalgamation of All the Races.