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Stories about Black History
by Danita Smith
Listen to real-life stories about key people, places and events--read, researched and written by Danita Smith, author of: Ten Things Your Child Should Know; Stories about Black History; My Journal of Spiritual Growth and They Can't Pull Us Up. Visit her website: https://searchBlackandEducation.com
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Chapter 7 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Read more: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2019/12/27/chapter-7-narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various...
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Chapter 6 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Read more: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2019/11/17/chapter-6-narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,—a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control...
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Frederick Douglass - July 5, 1852
READ MORE HERE: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2017/11/29/july-5-1852?rq=Douglass Fellow-Citizens—Pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political...
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Chapter 5 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
DONATIONS ARE WELCOMED: $RedandBlackInk on CashApp "As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, it was very similar to that of the other slave children. I was not old enough to work in the field, and there being little else than field work to do, I had a great deal of...
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Chapter 4 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Danita-Smith/e/B01BT7U138/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 Mr. Hopkins remained but a short time in the office of overseer. Why his career was so short, I do not know, but suppose he lacked the necessary severity to suit Colonel Lloyd. Mr. Hopkins was succeeded by…
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Chapter 3 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Danita-Smith/e/B01BT7U138/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1 NOTE: Colonel Lloyd was from one of the richest families in Maryland, he was a former governor of the state of Maryland and held offices in the United State Congress (U.S. Representative and U.S....
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Chapter 2 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
READ MORE BOOKS AND STORIES: https://www.amazon.com/Danita-Smith/e/B01BT7U138?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln My master's family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld. They lived in one house, upon the home plantation of Colonel Edward…
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Chapter 1 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Read more: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2019/10/12/chapter-1-narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any…
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Camilla, GA: Political Rally and Massacre
Daniel Howard, a twenty-year-old African-American man, attended a political rally on September 19, 1868. He was one of hundreds of African Americans to attend this rally. READ MORE: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2018/1/14/camilla-ga-political-rally-and-massacre?rq=camilla PURCHASE...
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Fanny Jackson-Coppin
If there were a few words that could sum up Mrs. Fanny Jackson-Coppin they would be, “excellence in education.” Mrs. Jackson-Coppin spent decades as an educator and as a principal, at a time when women, especially women of color, weren’t given many opportunities to lead. She stepped into…
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(Part 3) - A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898
A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898 The day after the election in Wilmington, a mass meeting was called on November 9, 1898. Some of the same people, who had planned an overthrow of the local government were in the meeting. You see, sometime later it was uncovered that local men...
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(Part 2) - A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898
Once the supporters of white supremacy in New Hanover County (Wilmington, NC) gained the desired victories on election day, November 8, 1898, they were not finished. There were other offices in the city they wanted such as mayor of the city, chief of police and aldermen—even though those…
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(Part 1) - A Massacre and American Uprising: Wilmington, NC 1898
In 1898 many African-American voters were, of course, Republican at that time, as this was the party of Lincoln—the party that supported the Emancipation Proclamation and needed reforms during Reconstruction. All voters were, of course male, and most white conservatives in the South were in the...
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Thurgood Marshall: His Most Famous Dissent
Supreme Court Case: San Antonio Independent School District et. al, v. Rodriguez, Term: October 1972. The Court today decides, in effect, that a State may constitutionally vary the quality of education which it offers its children in accordance with the amount of taxable wealth located in the...
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W.E.B. Du Bois- Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote three autobiographies: Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (1920), Dusk of Dawn (1940) and The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois (published in 1968, after his death). The following is the first part of the first chapter of Darkwater, it covers his ancestry and offers a look...
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Self Help: Her Words of Wisdom - Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells: In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do for himself what no one else can do for him. The world looks on with wonder that we have conceded so much and remain law-abiding under such great outrage and provocation. To Northern capital and…
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Sally Hemings: She was Only 14
Sally was only fourteen. Her mother, Elizabeth Hemings, was the daughter of a Captain of an English trading vessel and an enslaved woman from Africa. Elizabeth, like her daughter Sally would be, was forced to be a sex slave, literally, by the man who owned her and her children, John Wayles. She…
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Breonna Taylor: Remember Her Story
Remembering Breonna Taylor: Breonna Taylor was in her apartment at about 12:40 am on March 13, 2020. Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was with her. They had already turned in for the night and were in bed watching a movie, when Breonna fell asleep. Listen to more or read below:...
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Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson - August 19, 1791
I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of Beings who have long laboured under the abuse and censure of the world, that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt, and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and...
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Biddy Mason: An American Pioneer
Read more: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2017/10/31/biddy-mason-an-american-pioneer Biddy Mason was born, enslaved, in Hancock, Georgia in 1818. Her owner, Robert Smith, later moved to Mississippi where he became acquainted with the Mormon religion. The mid-1800s were a tumultuous...
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The Red Summer of 1919 and "If We Must Die"
Read more: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2017/10/8/the-red-summer-and-if-we-must-die In 1919 more than 20 different racially violent events took place throughout the United States, from May of 1919 to October of 1919. The events were so violent that this time span became known as…
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Dr. Percy Julian: An American Chemist
Read more: https://searchblackandeducation.com/stories/2017/7/30/dr-percy-julian Percy Julian was born on April 11, 1899 in Montgomery, Alabama. His parents sent him to school in Montgomery, AL, but there were no educational opportunities for black people beyond a certain grade in Montgomery.…
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Listen to real-life stories about key people, places and events--read, researched and written by Danita Smith, author of: Ten Things Your Child Should Know; Stories about Black History; My Journal of Spiritual Growth and They Can't Pull Us Up. Visit her website: https://searchBlackandEducation.com
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Listen to real-life stories about key people, places and events--read, researched and written by Danita Smith, author of: Ten Things Your Child Should Know; Stories about Black History; My Journal of Spiritual Growth and They Can't Pull Us Up. Visit her website: https://searchBlackandEducation.com
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