{"id":34220,"date":"2013-10-09T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34220"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:29:34","slug":"bringing-black-history-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34220","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Black History Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/2011\/04\/15\/bringing-black-history-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bringing Black History Home<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\" target=\"_blank\">CUNY Newswire<\/a><br \/>\nThe City University of New York<br \/>\n2011-04-15<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nimg.sulekha.com\/others\/original700\/antionette-martignoni-greta-blau-2010-9-24-13-11-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><small>Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation&#8217;s first African American physician at Martignoni&#8217;s home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (AP Photo\/Jessica Hill)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The name <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_McCune_Smith\" target=\"_blank\">James McCune Smith<\/a> meant little to Greta Blau in 1996, when she briefly mentioned him in a research paper she wrote for a History of Blacks in New York City course designed and taught by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunter.cuny.edu\/afprl\/faculty\/joanne-edey-rhodes\" target=\"_blank\">Joanne Edey-Rhodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blau\u2019s paper for the Hunter College class focused on the Colored Orphan Asylum, founded on Fifth Avenue to assist homeless and destitute African-American children. She noted that Smith, the asylum\u2019s doctor, was the nation\u2019s first professionally trained African-American physician \u2014 as well as an eminent 19th century abolitionist and author whose friends included antislavery movement leader <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Douglass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Little did Blau know that the assignment would years later lead her on an engrossing journey into her own family\u2019s roots.<\/p>\n<p>It began one day in 2003, at her grandmother\u2019s house in Connecticut, when she was looking through the family Bible that an Irish relative had. \u201cThe name was in there as the father of my great-grandmother\u2019s second husband,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew I had heard that name before. I went home and Googled the name, and he came up. I said, \u2018That can\u2019t be the right person, because I\u2019m white.\u2019\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/2011\/04\/15\/bringing-black-history-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing Black History Home CUNY Newswire The City University of New York 2011-04-15 Antoinette Martignoni, left, and her granddaughter Greta Blau hold a family Bible that contains the name of their ancestor, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation&#8217;s first African American physician at Martignoni&#8217;s home in Fairfield, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. 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