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Selected Background Scenes from Our Georgia Shoot Last week Of Special Note is the Imperial Hotel in Thomasville, Georgia. It's sad that this place has been let go... I am including a blurb from a website.
"Imperial Hotel
704 West Jackson Street
Built by the Lewis brothers in 1949 and operated until 1969 by Harvey and Dorothy Lewis Thompson, the Imperial Hotel is the only known black hotel in Thomasville's history. Until the end of segregation in public accommodations, African-American's could not stay in public hotels. When entertainers such as the King Perry Band, B.B. King, The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Earl Bostic, Bells of Joy, Rosetta Thorpe and Marie Knight all came to Thomasville, they had to stay at the Imperial Hotel."
Selected Background Scenes from Our Georgia Shoot Last week Of Special Note is the Imperial Hotel in Thomasville, Georgia. It's sad that this place has been let go... I am including a blurb from a website.
"Imperial Hotel
704 West Jackson Street
Built by the Lewis brothers in 1949 and operated until 1969 by Harvey and Dorothy Lewis Thompson, the Imperial Hotel is the only known black hotel in Thomasville's history. Until the end of segregation in public accommodations, African-American's could not stay in public hotels. When entertainers such as the King Perry Band, B.B. King, The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Earl Bostic, Bells of Joy, Rosetta Thorpe and Marie Knight all came to Thomasville, they had to stay at the Imperial Hotel."
A plaque honoring Mary Church Terrell recognizing her work campaigning to end segregation at the lunch counter of Hecht's Department Store in 1951 and 1952. Nearly 65 years later, Rosa Mexicana Restaurant on the same site it closed for Immigration Day 2017. A number of restaurants in Washington, D.C., will remain closed or be short-staffed February 16, 2017 as foreign-born workers show solidarity with a campaign aimed at protesting President Donald Trump’s policy toward immigrants. “A day without immigrants” is a grassroots campaign calling on foreign-born people across the country — whatever their legal status may be — to not work or spend money to demonstrate the importance of immigrants, both in the context of their labor potential and consumer spending in the country.
Civil rights demonstrators picket the Carry Out shop owned by Mike Kokinos November 28, 1960. Kokinos refused service to African Americans in the Colonial Restaurant across the street in Annapolis, Maryland.
Kokinos had five African Americans arrested on trespassing charges November 25th during a sit-in demonstration at the Colonial located inside the bus station.
The Carry Out shop offered service to African Americans but they were denied at the Colonial sit-down restaurant.
Kokinos was quoted in the Washington Post saying during the picket of the Carry Out shop, “The only thing I’m interested in is my business. I’ve talked to 100 people in two days and only two say they would come if I served Negroes.”
“If they beat the law, everyone will serve them. But if they are found guilty I probably will serve them anyway. I know I’ll suffer I’m going to take the chance.”
On December 1st, Kokinos entered an agreement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to begin service to African Americans, resulting in victory for what was the first desegregation sit-in in Annapolis.
The five arrested Annapolis residents were businessmen William H Johnson and Lacey McKinney, school teachers Ethel Mae Thompson and Mary M. Carroll and dentist Dr. S. P Callahan.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk4UiXYi
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
There was no segregation of prisoners, and each prisoner received a candle that had to last 2 weeks. It was their only source of light and heat. (There was no glass in the windows back then)
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here have received.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Bordersville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming Kin" Genealogy blog is located here -
I feel truly honored to be the winner in the Segregation and Human Rights category in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers for my "Ain't I a Woman" series.
Thank you to jurors Elizabeth Avedon, Ann Jastrab and Elizabeth Krist for the recognition of my work.
The overall award winners and category winners will have work shown at the Gala Exhibition at FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain in April 2024.
www.thegalaawards.com/19th-jmca-pro-people-to-storytellin...
I want to remind you that, fifty years ago, racial segregation here in the South was entrenched as tightly as was apartheid in South Africa. The national government, even with liberal presidents like Kennedy and Johnson in office, was looking the other way while black people were beaten and killed and denied the opportunity to vote. So black people in the South decided they had to do something by themselves. They boycotted and sat in and picketed and demonstrated, and were beaten and jailed, and some were killed, but their cries for freedom were soon heard all over the nation and around the world, and the President and Congress finally did what they had previously failed to do -- enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.
Many people had said: The South will never change.
But it did change.
It changed because ordinary people organized and took risks and challenged the system and would not give up. That's when democracy came alive.
. . . The lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right, and you persist, things will change.
The government may try to deceive the people, and the newspapers and television may do the same, but the truth has a way of coming out. The truth has a power greater than a hundred lies. I know you have practical things to do -- to get jobs and get married and have children. You may become prosperous and be considered a success in the way our society defines success, by wealth and standing and prestige. But that is not enough for a good life.
. . . My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. . . .
My hope is that you will not be content just to be successful in the way that our society measures success; that you will not obey the rules, when the rules are unjust; that you will act out the courage that I know is in you. There are wonderful people, black and white, who are models. I don't mean African- Americans like Condoleezza Rice, or Colin Powell, or Clarence Thomas, who have become servants of the rich and powerful. I mean W.E.B. DuBois and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and Marian Wright Edelman, and James Baldwin and Josephine Baker and good white folk, too, who defied the Establishment to work for peace and justice.
. . . That marvelous African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston, who wouldn't do what white people wanted her to do, who wouldn't do what black people wanted her to do, who insisted on being herself, said that her mother advised her: Leap for the sun -- you may not reach it, but at least you will get off the ground.
By being here today, you are already standing on your toes, ready to leap. My hope for you is a good life.
Against Discouragement, 2005 speech by Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American academic historian, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, as well as of the labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work.
Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. His father, Eddie Zinn, born in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the U.S. with his brother Samuel before the outbreak of World War I. Howard's mother Jenny Zinn emigrated from the Eastern Siberian city of Irkutsk. Both parents were factory workers with limited education when they met and married, and there were no books or magazines in the series of apartments where they raised their children. Zinn's parents introduced him to literature by sending 10 cents plus a coupon to the New York Post for each of the 20 volumes of Charles Dickens' collected works. He also studied creative writing at Thomas Jefferson High School in a special program established by poet Elias Lieberman.
Eager to fight fascism, Zinn joined the Army Air Force during World War II and was assigned as a bombardier in the 490th Bombardment Group, bombing targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. A U.S. bombardier in April 1945, Zinn dropped napalm bombs on Royan, a seaside resort in southwestern France. The anti-war stance Zinn developed later was informed, in part, by his experiences.
After World War II, Zinn attended New York University on the GI Bill, graduating with a B.A. in 1951. At Columbia University, he later earned an M.A. (1952) and a Ph.D. in history with a minor in political science (1958). His masters' thesis examined the Colorado coal strikes of 1914. His doctoral dissertation LaGuardia in Congress was a study of Fiorello LaGuardia's congressional career, and it depicted representing "the conscience of the twenties" as LaGuardia fought for public power, the right to strike, and the redistribution of wealth by taxation.
From 1956 through 1963, Zinn chaired the Department of History and social sciences at Spelman College. He participated in the Civil Rights movement and lobbied with historian August Meier "to end the practice of the Southern Historical Association of holding meetings at segregated hotels". While at Spelman, Zinn served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and wrote about sit-ins and other actions by SNCC for The Nation and Harper's. In 1964, Beacon Press published his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists.
Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd mentoring student activists, among them Alice Walker, who would later write The Color Purple; and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. Edelman identified Zinn as a major influence in her life and, in that same journal article, tells of his accompanying students to a sit-in at the segregated white section of the Georgia state legislature.
Although Zinn was a tenured professor, he was dismissed in June 1963 after siding with students in the struggle against segregation. As Zinn described in The Nation, though Spelman administrators prided themselves for turning out refined "young ladies," its students were likely to be found on the picket line, or in jail for participating in the greater effort to break down segregation in public places in Atlanta. Zinn's years at Spelman are recounted in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. His seven years at Spelman College, Zinn said, "are probably the most interesting, exciting, most educational years for me. I learned more from my students than my students learned from me."
While living in Georgia, Zinn wrote that he observed 30 violations of the First and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution in Albany, Georgia, including the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and equal protection under the law. In an article on the civil rights movement in Albany, Zinn described the people who participated in the Freedom Rides to end segregation, and the reluctance of President John F. Kennedy to enforce the law. Zinn has also pointed out that the Justice Department under Robert F. Kennedy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, did little or nothing to stop the segregationists from brutalizing civil rights workers.
Zinn came to believe that the point of view expressed in traditional history books was often limited. He wrote a history textbook, A People's History of the United States, to provide other perspectives on American history. The textbook depicts the struggles of Native Americans against European and U.S. conquest and expansion, slaves against slavery, unionists and other workers against capitalists, women against patriarchy, and African-Americans for civil rights. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1981.
“Today I have stood where Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very heart of the Anglo-Saxon southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generation of forebears before us time and again down through history.
“Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny. And I say: Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever.”
~ George Wallace, Inaugural Address as Governor of Alabama, 1963
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served four nonconsecutive terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. After four runs for U.S. president (three as a Democrat and one on the American Independent Party ticket), he earned the title, "the most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher.
From the age of ten, Wallace was fascinated with politics. In 1935, he won a contest to serve as a page in the Alabama Senate and confidently predicted that he would one day be governor.
Wallace became a regionally successful boxer in high school, then went directly to law school in 1937 at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. He was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. After receiving a LL.B. degree in 1942, he entered pilot cadet training in the United States Army Air Corps. He washed out, became a staff sergeant and flew B-29 combat missions over Japan in 1945. He served with the XX Bomber Command under General Curtis LeMay, who would be his running mate in the 1968 presidential race. While in the service, Wallace nearly died of spinal meningitis, but prompt medical attention with sulfa drugs saved him. Left with partial hearing loss and nerve damage, he was medically discharged with a disability pension.
In May 1946, he won his first election as a member to the Alabama House of Representatives. At the time, he was considered a moderate on racial issues. As a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, he did not join the Dixiecrat walkout at the convention, despite his opposition to U.S. President Harry S. Truman's proposed civil rights program, which Wallace considered an infringement on states' rights. The Dixiecrats carried Alabama in the 1948 general election, having rallied behind then Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
In 1952, he became the Circuit Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit in Alabama. Here he became known as "the fighting little judge," a nod to his past boxing association. In 1958, Wallace was defeated by John Malcolm Patterson in Alabama's Democratic gubernatorial primary election. At the time the primary was the decisive election; the general election was then a mere formality. This was a political crossroads for Wallace. Patterson ran with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization Wallace had spoken against, while Wallace was endorsed by the NAACP.[15] After the election, aide Seymore Trammell recalled Wallace saying, "Seymore, you know why I lost that governor's race?... I was outniggered by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again."
Wallace was elected governor in a landslide victory in November 1962. He took the oath of office on January 14, 1963, standing on the gold star marking the spot where, nearly 102 years earlier, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
In a vain attempt to halt desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. This became known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". After being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and the Alabama Army National Guard, he stepped aside. In September 1963, Wallace again attempted to stop four black students from enrolling in four separate elementary schools in Huntsville. After intervention by a federal court in Birmingham, the four children were allowed to enter on September 9, becoming the first to integrate a primary or secondary school in Alabama.
Wallace desperately wanted to preserve segregation. In his own words: "The President (John F. Kennedy) wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-communists who have instituted these demonstrations."
Wallace was known for stirring crowds with his oratory. The Huntsville Times interviewed Bill Jones, Wallace's first press secretary, who recounted "a particularly fiery speech in Cincinnati in 1964 that scared even Wallace." "Wallace angrily shouted to a crowd of 1000 that 'little pinkos' were 'running around outside' protesting his visit, and continued, after thunderous applause, Wallace said, "When you and I start marching and demonstrating and carrying signs, we will close every highway in the country." The audience leapt to its feet "and headed for the exit." Jones said, "It shook Wallace. He quickly moved to calm them down."
Wallace ran for President in the 1968 election as the American Independent Party candidate, with the attorney Tom Turnipseed as his executive director. Wallace hoped to force the House of Representatives to decide the election with one vote per state if he could obtain sufficient electoral votes to make him a power broker. Wallace hoped that southern states could use their clout to end federal efforts at desegregation. His platform contained generous increases for beneficiaries of Social Security and Medicare. Wallace's foreign policy positions set him apart from the other candidates in the field. "If the Vietnam War was not winnable within 90 days of his taking office, Wallace pledged an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops ... Wallace described foreign aid as money 'poured down a rat hole' and demanded that European and Asian allies pay more for their defense."
Wallace (after considering Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders) chose Air Force General Curtis LeMay of California as his running mate. LeMay was considered instrumental in the establishment in 1947 of the United States Air Force and an expert in military affairs. His four-star military rank, experience at Strategic Air Command and presence advising President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis were considered foreign-policy assets to the Wallace campaign. By 1968, LeMay had retired and was serving as chairman of the board of an electronics company, but the company threatened to dismiss him if he took a leave of absence to run for vice president. To keep LeMay on the ticket, Wallace backer and Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt set up a million-dollar fund to reimburse LeMay for any income lost in the campaign. At this time, LeMay was best known to the American public as an enthusiastic proponent of the use of nuclear weapons in war. Campaign aides tried to persuade him to avoid questions relating to the topic, but when asked about it at his first interview, he attempted to dispel American "phobias about nuclear weapons" and discussed radioactive land crabs at Bikini atoll. The issue became a drag on Wallace's candidacy for the remainder of the campaign.
Major media outlets observed the support Wallace received from extremist groups such as White Citizens' Councils. It has been noted that members of such groups had permeated the Wallace campaign by 1968 and, while Wallace did not openly seek their support, nor did he refuse it. Indeed, at least one case has been documented of the pro-Nazi and white supremacist Liberty Lobby distributing a pro-Wallace pamphlet entitled "Stand up for America" despite the campaign's denial of such a connection.
In 1970, Wallace faced incumbent Governor Albert Brewer, who was the first gubernatorial candidate since Reconstruction to seek African-American voter support. Brewer unveiled a progressive platform and worked to build an alliance between blacks and the white working class. Of Wallace's out-of-state trips, Brewer said, "Alabama needs a full-time governor."
In what former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls "one of the most racist campaigns in modern southern political history," Wallace aired television advertising with slogans such as "Do you want the black block electing your governor?" and circulated an ad showing a white girl surrounded by seven black boys, with the slogan "Wake Up Alabama! Blacks vow to take over Alabama."
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Borderville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming King" Genealogy blog is located here -
claimingkin.livejournal.com/2577.html
Joint meeting of City of Beloit Parks and Recreation Commission and Landmarks Commission at Turtle Creek Park to tour the old pool Bathhouse building. The building's been sealed up for a many years waiting for some kind of decision on its future.
Parks and Recreation Commission wants to examine options and thus this meeting.
Inside was this old desk under a rooftop skylight vent.
[I'll find the Beloit Historical Society page with information on this 1938 Flexcore roofed historic landmark building later.]
Mary Hopkins, mother, born just before the Civil War.
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Borderville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming King" Genealogy blog is located here -
claimingkin.livejournal.com/2577.html
"Against the segregation Wall" Summer Camp festival in Al-Ma'sara (Bethlehem)
Lyna, Ranyme, Hadyle, ...
In the Southern United States, following the Civil War to the mid 20th century, the segregation of races in public transportation and transportation facilities was legal. The photograph show the entrance to the "White" waiting room at the former Atlantic Coast Line depot in Punta Gorda, Florida. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To view the "Colored" sign to the waiting room go to www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/5452710166/in/photostr...
Humor auf Plankstädtisch
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kann auch so verstanden werden:
Fan-Segregation schon an der Bushaltestelle ;-)
Who thought it was a good idea to create such a barrier to the river, and an ugly one at that? We should make more of the riverside: open it up and create pleasant walks.
In September 1963, as pressure was rising to end racial segregation, a racist group bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young black girls were killed and 22 other people injured as the bomb went off ahead of a Sunday morning service. Another two young black boys were shot dead nearby a few hours later.
Thousands of miles away in Wales, artist John Petts and the Western Mail newspaper organised a mass solidarity campaign to raise money to replace one of the stained glass windows that was destroyed in the blast. Petts designed the new window, which now has pride of place at the front of the church and is inscribed "from the people of Wales". With a rainbow background and a black Christ, his right hand blocking hatred and injustice and his left hand ushering in forgiveness, it was extremely controversial in racially segregated Alabama.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/06/racist-attac...
Macon Terminal Station (GA) was built in 1916; under the Jim Crow laws colored people were required to enter the train station via this gate. This law was enforced till early-mid 60's.
La stazione dei treni di Macon (GA) costruita nel 1916 aveva una sala di aspetto solo per le persone di colore che erano obbligate ad entrare la stazione attraverso un ingresso separato. Questa legge, la Jim Crow, rimase in vigore fino agli inizi-meta' anni 60.
From the April 12, 1941 issue of The Carolina Times (p. 8).
View at DigitalNC: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83045120/1941-04-12/ed-1/...
Digital Collection: North Carolina Newspapers
Contributing Institution: Durham County Library
Usage Statement: Copyright The Carolina Times. This item is presented courtesy of The Carolina Times for research and educational purposes. Prior permission from The Carolina Times is required for any commercial use.
The Lorraine Motel is the site of the assassination of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. and now home to the National Civil Rights Organization.
In the days of legal segregation, the Lorraine was one of the few hotels in Memphis open to black guests. Its location, walking distance from Beale Street, the main street of Memphis' black community, made it attractive to visiting celebrities. When Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, or Nat Cole, came to town, they stayed at the Lorraine.
In March 1968, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King visited Memphis to support the city's striking garbage collectors. He checked into the Lorraine, and led a march that, despite his policy of non-violence. turned violent. A second march was then planned.
On April 3, in a speech at Memphis Mason Temple, Dr. King said "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountain top. I won't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life."
Dr. King was assassinated at the Lorraine the next night, as he stood on the balcony outside room 306, on the motel's second floor.
The official account of the shooting named a single assassin, James Earl Ray, who fired one shot from the top floor of a rooming house whose rear windows overlooked the motel.
Many believed that Dr. King was the victim of a conspiracy involving the Memphis police department, the FBI, and the U.S. Army. His opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam war, and plans for massive protests, in the name of his Poor People's Campaign, calling attention to poverty in America, have been cited as reasons.
(excerpted from Tom Sanders, voices.yahoo.com/the-story-lorraine-motel-memphis-14303.h...)
Well we think it's Needle Ice, awaiting confirmation. It's another first for us which also means another tick off the lifetime bucket list. Found on the South Downs in West Sussex near a small stream which had overflowed and flooded the area, then it froze overnight, possibly over two nights or more given they all seem to look of being two tiered. This phenomena is known as Ice Segregation, when we found Frost Flowers back in 2017 in Decatur Alabama we made contact with Dr. Carter and he sent us this article which he had published a few years prior, it's probably the best explanation we've found for all the forms of Ice Segregation.
link to Dr. Carter's article
www.jrcarter.net/ice/segregation/?fbclid=IwAR2Xy8AShWF9Pc...
on the South Downs, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England
Under Curtatone administration, Somerville, MA has proceeded with millions of dollars worth of street reconstruction improvement and "beautification" projects without even minimally adhering to either State or Federal architectural access regulations.
Here, the reciprocal curb cut has a 11.1% rise and this curb cut has a 9.1% rise- even though it is new construction, circa 2011.
Looking from the Catholic Springfield Road side to the Protestant Shankill Road area. The abandoned house on the left straddles the security gate.
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Borderville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming King" Genealogy blog is located here -
claimingkin.livejournal.com/2577.html
Eugene V. Davidson, the president of the District of Columbia NAACP from 1952 to 1958 is shown October 22, 1957 after a cross was burned in front of his house.
Davidson gained early fame when he was named administrator of the New Negro Alliance in 1939.
Davidson broadened the group to include left-wing activists like Doxey Wilkerson, U. Simpson Tate and George H. Rycraw as well as moderates like future mayor Walter Washington and Roberta Hastie, wife of Judge William H. Hastie.
The group had been picketing and boycotting stores in the District since 1933 under the slogan, “Don’t buy where you can’t work.”
The group had intitial success in a number of smaller stores and early on convinced the A&P grocery store to integrate three of its stores located in black neighborhoods, but efforts had stalled.
Davidson renewed the offensive against smaller stores and quickly desegregated Joseph Oxenburg at 1314 7th Street NW, Bonnett’s Shore Store at 1310 7th Street and Capitol Shoe Store at 1338 7th Street.
He recruited national NAACP president Walter White and prominent rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune to picket People’s Drug Store demanding that the chain hire black clerks and cashiers.
Despite the renewed pressure, chains like Sanitary Grocery (Safeway) and People’s Drug Store successfully resisted the pressure.
During 1941, Davidson helped organize the local chapter of A. Phillip Randolph’s March on Washington Movement whose threatened demonstration prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to issue an executive order barring discrimination in defense-related industry.
While head of the local NAACP, Davidson oversaw the end of legal segregation in the District and challenged many institutions to live up to the law, including D.C. schools, the police and fire departments, and the board of realtors.
It was after he charged the District police department with brutality in 1957 that the cross was burned in front of his house.
Davidson was a District of Columbia native who graduated from what would become Dunbar High School. He graduated from Howard University, received an A. B. degree from Harvard and returned to Howard to get a bachelor of laws degree.
He began assisting his father, who had been the first executive secretary of the District of Columbia NAACP, in the family real estate business. He continued to run the company until his retirement in 1973.
He served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant in World War I and at one time was editor of three black-oriented newspapers in the city.
Davidson died in 1976
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskhFYfNQ
The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
I feel a great debt to Harry Truman. He had to make two momentous decisions, both involving the military.
One was the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, which, by military estimates, shortened WWII in the Pacific by at least two years. The Japanese just would not stop fighting!
The second caused a firestorm as big or bigger than the ones at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he signed Executive Order 9981, which integrated the United States military after 170 years of segregation and laid the groundwork for the civil rights and women's rights movements to come.
There's a quote from then-Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina which illustrates how unpopular that decision was at the time, and still is, in some quarters.
"There are not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to admit the Negroes into our theaters, swimming pools and homes -- we have been stabbed in the back by a President who has betrayed every principle of the Democratic party in his desire to win at any cost."
So, Southern Negroes weren't "people", Senator? That's nice to know. And isn't it interesting how President Obama is being accused of betraying our country's principles simply because he wants everyone, not just the wealthy or people with generous full-time employers, to have access to affordable health insurance.
And we now know that, despite his segregationist pronouncements, Thurmond admitted at least one female Negro servant into his bedroom -- and an out-of-wedlock daughter was the result.
www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2003/07...
Two boys watch picketers outside of the sales office of the Levittown Belair subdivision in Bowie, Md. August 10, 1963 demanding that segregation in housing be ended.
The group staged an all night sit-in, but within a week an injunction against picketing was granted against protests on the private streets of the subdivision. Picketers moved out on to Maryland Route 450.
The picketing led by the Prince George’s County Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chapter went on and off for several months and resulted in several dozen arrests when the group employed civil disobedience.
Levitt remained steadfast in his segregation stance despite the successful battle to integrate some of his other developments in New Jersey.
The development was eventually desegregated when original homeowners began to sell homes to African Americans and the federal government began enforcing no discrimination on FHA and VA loans and the federal 1968 Civil Rights Act was enacted. In the interim, Maryland voters rejected an open housing law by referendum in 1967.
For more information and additional images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk4S6zrA
Photo by Owen Duvall. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
The Jewish Community and the Ghetto of Verona
The presence of a Jewish community in Verona is attested since the Middle Ages. The Israelites lived in relative peace and prosperity in Verona until the middle of 1500 when even in Verona gathered the content of the document of Pope Paul IV, which called segregation. Also in Verona, in addition to a long series of prohibitions and restrictions, was established the ghetto , from the current via Mazzini, via Pellicciai, Via Quintino Sella and Piazza Erbe. Even today, the houses at the beginning of Piazza delle Erbe coming from Via Cappello, have the characteristic long and narrow shape characteristic given the limited surface on which it was possible to build.
The Synagogue
The structure of the synagogue of Verona was built by ' architect James Franco in 1864. The draft Franco foresaw a rectangular room with the space for the officiant sopralelevata respect of the area of the faithful and accessible by two side staircases.
L 'present aspect of the synagogue, in particular as regards the beautiful facade in art deco style , it is nevertheless the draft Ettore Fagiuoli , the most important architect of Verona '900, who more than any other left his mark in the city feature , producing among other things the scenography for the first performance of ' Aida at the opera festival in the Arena . And the taste for some magnificent architecture and almost theatrical is also found in front of the synagogue in Verona. The Fagiuoli, in undertaking the project, wanted to create an architectural object very innovative and the fruit of his creativity albeit in line with the taste deco era. The facade is symmetrical, with a central broad access portal flanked by two stone pillars decorated with white tiles in relief, in turn framed by two pairs of pilasters that define the entire field of the facade. The double pilasters accentuate the verticality of the structure and give the whole a lively pace given by the alternation of decorative stones in rusticated stones and diamond point, with a further variation in about half of the pilaster where the ashlar is replaced by smooth stones . The entire facade rests on a base of white stone which corresponds to a high frame strongly emphasize that units and additional symmetry to the whole. The facade is crossed at about two-thirds of the height from another frame in white stone which coincides with the addition of the tympanum above the doorway. In the infield to the pair of pilasters the Fagiuoli inserted geometric patterns in relief formed by ellipses and circles connected to each other by segments made ââof decorative plaster titeggiato white to contrast the yellow gold of the bottom and warm white stone. Fields of yellow plaster next to the input structure are adorned by two windows on each side closed by wrought iron grilles with floral motifs, interspersed with a plaque. The plaque on the left, in memory of Rita Rosani, dates back to 1955, the right one, placed in 1957, commemorates the victims of the Holocaust Verona.
The monumental portal is represented by an arch flanked by two half-pillars that support an entablature and a pediment broken, creating a set of high-impact spatial and volumetric. In the various panels are decorated with bas-relief depicting the Tablets of the Law, the Tomb of Assalone son of David situated among palm trees, the Menorah , seven-branched candlestick, the Tower of David, Rachel's Tomb, the Golden Gate.
L 'interior of the synagogue is no exception, is rich of mosaics on the floors, both of geometric painting cycles that adorn the walls and ceilings and built both fresco and tempera porporina also partly included in the overall project of Fagiuoli. The author where Fagiuoli relied was probably Pino Casarini, young at the time but already well-known painter of decorations.
Integrated students at Anacostia High School September 10, 1957, three years after the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Bolling v. Sharpe case that outlawed school segregation in the District of Columbia.
Anacostia High School was the scene of the most fierce resistance to school integration that involved harassment of black students, a strike by white students supported by some parents and an attempted march across the 11th Street Bridge to garner support at other schools.
The suit ending segregation was brought by the Consolidated Parents Group, composed of working class African Americans living east of the Anacostia River.
The Group waged a seven-year fight beginning in 1947 to improve conditions for African Americans that began with a boycott of deplorable conditions at the all black Browne Junior High on Benning Road and ended with the Court’s school desegregation order.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/564wW3
Read the story of of DC desegregation from the pickets to the courts: washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/dcs-fighting-bar...
Photo by Warren K. Leffler. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Borderville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming King" Genealogy blog is located here -
claimingkin.livejournal.com/2577.html
Wasting the City! A box for a box
There it goes! The Frappant Building in Hamburg Altona is teared down to build a new City Ikea. Wide range and long protest didn't help. People are not only scared that the new massive Ikea-Store in the residential area of Hamburg-Altona will bring way more traffic into the area, but also that Ikea is part of the gentrification that starts with higher rents and ends with residential segregation. At the end of the day..a box will be replaced by an even bigger box.
Segregation now, tomorrow and forever
En colaboración con Mr. Ken Cole, gracias amigo.
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Colección Ken Cole
Overcoming occupational segregation: Young women and men receive technical training.
Country : Philippines
Date : 1990
Copyright : Maillard J. / ILO
Concrete ruins on north side of the cemetery.
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Borderville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming King" Genealogy blog is located here -
claimingkin.livejournal.com/2577.html
Humble Negro Cemetery, otherwise known as the Pipe Yard Cemetery, is north of the FM 1960 bypass, just east of the railroad tracks, behind the Home Depot and an Humble ISD administration building.
Jim Crow Laws, segregation, were brutally enforced at the time that burials were being made there. Not only could African-Americans not be buried in the Humble Cemetery, but after 1933, when Humble was incorporated, new laws were passed, forcing African-Americans to move, some to nearby Bordersville, just outside the city limits. There are reports that the graves of the few African-Americans who had been buried in the Humble Cemetery were moved, some to the Humble Negro Cemetery.
Grace Church now attempts to maintain the cemetery.
On the day that I was there, an empty flagpole stood.
The concrete ruins of an old kerosene refinery are on the north boundary of the cemetery, and dense woods are on all sides.
Time, and the elements, take a toll on cemeteries, especially those essentially abandoned for many years.
We know where our parents are buried, may visit their graves, but how many of us regularly visit our grandparents' graves? Commercial, perpetual care, cemeteries, and those associated with churches and municipalities have systems in place for maintenance, but there are many cemeteries, such as those that were no longer in use after desegregation, that are nearly forgotten, descendants moving away, passing away...
At Evergreen and Olivewood, both essentially abandoned, but for the efforts of volunteers, there are occasional signs of vandalism. I've never seen vandalism, desecration, though, on the scale that I found at Humble Negro Cemetery. Over the years, most of the stones have been broken, many to fragments. Many graves are unmarked, but for sunken places on the ground. Graves of veterans have been used for target practice. Some of the graves had concrete slabs over them. In every case, the slab has been shattered, and the earth beneath disturbed, though now, somewhat, replaced. Graves have clearly been violated.
The range of weathering of the damage indicates that it has taken place over decades.
It might not be hard to make an argument that the graves in such cemeteries should be the responsibilty of descendants, survivors, but I strongly feel that the graves of those who have helped to defend this country deserve better, from the nation, from the community ,than those veterans' graves at Elmview, Olivewood, and here.
A part of me feels that there is, perhaps, something to be said for letting such sites return completely to nature, but our history lies here, with those who helped build this country, this community.
www.usgwarchives.net/tx/cemph/harris/humble-n.htm
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TX-CEMETERY-PRESER...
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//5787895.html
Borderville Learning Service Project directly available at YouTube -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBP-VF6KGc
"Claiming King" Genealogy blog is located here -
claimingkin.livejournal.com/2577.html