Storycorps is a great source of Americana.
Listen as John Hope Franklin, the late scholar of African American history, tells his son, John, about being a Boy Scout during the 1920s.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Black Folks in Mississippi Suspicious of "Suicide" Hanging
Frederick Jermaine Carter hanging (Lynching) in Mississippi, NO
Suicide according to the NAACP
Posted on December 15, 2010 by EOTM Press Room 7
By: Carla Barnes
26 year old African American Frederick Jermaine Carter was
found hanging in a Mississippi tree in a white suburb on Friday,
December 3, 2010. The USA Today first reported it as a suicide,
however, the NAACP just recently contests the findings, they feel
it may actually be a lynching.
Suicide according to the NAACP
Posted on December 15, 2010 by EOTM Press Room 7
By: Carla Barnes
26 year old African American Frederick Jermaine Carter was
found hanging in a Mississippi tree in a white suburb on Friday,
December 3, 2010. The USA Today first reported it as a suicide,
however, the NAACP just recently contests the findings, they feel
it may actually be a lynching.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Black Mother Black Daughter - Nova Scotia Women of Color
Black Mother Black Daughter
Rose Fortune was almost certainly the daughter of "Fortune — a free Negro", who came to Nova Scotia after the American War of Independence. He appears with his wife and a "child above ten" (probably Rose) in the muster roll of Loyalists at Annapolis in June 1784.
Rose earned her living as a trucker at Annapolis Royal. She carried baggage by a heavy wheelbarrow for the many passengers who travelled on the Saint John-Digby-Annapolis ferry. She also on occasion provided other assistance to travellers, such as helping them find better accommodation. Rose had two daughters and two grandsons. Family tradition states that one of her customers was Judge Haliburton, who came to Annapolis Royal to conduct court for the day. He relied on Rose to waken him the next morning and get him on board ship so that he would be in Digby in time to hold court there. (Noted author T.C. Haliburton was a judge of the Supreme Court, 1841-1856.)
Along with the carting and wake up services, Fortune established curfews and standards of behavior on the wharf. Her words of enforcement established her as the first police woman in Canada. She told stragglers to move along and to clear the streets before she turned in.
Although suffering from severe rheumatism in her later years, Rose continued to work until well into her seventies.
Black Mother Black Daughter
An NFB film by Claire Prieto & Sylvia Hamilton,
This is a wonderful film that chronicles the lives of Black Nova Scotian Women and their contributions to their communities socially, economically and spiritually as well as politically. We meet mothers and daughters and learn from them about some of their life experiences in their Nova Scotian communities.
Try this link (Click Here) if the embedded video is not available.
Rose Fortune was almost certainly the daughter of "Fortune — a free Negro", who came to Nova Scotia after the American War of Independence. He appears with his wife and a "child above ten" (probably Rose) in the muster roll of Loyalists at Annapolis in June 1784.
Rose earned her living as a trucker at Annapolis Royal. She carried baggage by a heavy wheelbarrow for the many passengers who travelled on the Saint John-Digby-Annapolis ferry. She also on occasion provided other assistance to travellers, such as helping them find better accommodation. Rose had two daughters and two grandsons. Family tradition states that one of her customers was Judge Haliburton, who came to Annapolis Royal to conduct court for the day. He relied on Rose to waken him the next morning and get him on board ship so that he would be in Digby in time to hold court there. (Noted author T.C. Haliburton was a judge of the Supreme Court, 1841-1856.)
Along with the carting and wake up services, Fortune established curfews and standards of behavior on the wharf. Her words of enforcement established her as the first police woman in Canada. She told stragglers to move along and to clear the streets before she turned in.
Although suffering from severe rheumatism in her later years, Rose continued to work until well into her seventies.
Black Mother Black Daughter
An NFB film by Claire Prieto & Sylvia Hamilton,
This is a wonderful film that chronicles the lives of Black Nova Scotian Women and their contributions to their communities socially, economically and spiritually as well as politically. We meet mothers and daughters and learn from them about some of their life experiences in their Nova Scotian communities.
Try this link (Click Here) if the embedded video is not available.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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