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Rude awakening - The ANC's fall from grace in icon Al...

The lauded ANC leader would be disheartened by the misgovernment in his home town of Groutville, says one resident. Many no longer vote, disillusioned with false political promises. ....

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Atwell, Joseph S. (1831–1881) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Joseph Sandiford Atwell was born on July 1, 1831, in Barbados. After completing his education at Codrington College, an Anglican school on that island, he moved to the United States in 1863 and attended Divinity Hall, forerunner of the Philadelphia Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1866. He also raised funds to help residents of Barbados immigrate to Liberia.
The emancipation of four million people from slavery drew Atwell to the southern states to participate in the Episcopal Church’s efforts to evangelize the freedpeople. The church’s American Missionary Society sent him first to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve a newly organized church and school for African Americans. While there, he met and married Cordelia A. Jennings, a graduate of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and one of the school’s teachers. They had three sons. Bishop Benjamin Smith ordained Atwell as the first black deacon in the Diocese of Kentucky and in 1867 received Atwell’s pa ....

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10 facts about Charles Chesnutt, Fayetteville's famous Black writer

Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) has permanently written Fayetteville into literary history.
He is considered the first Black novelist to gain nationwide acclaim. His best-known writings were post-Civil War and Reconstruction stories of the color line, some of them set in the fictional town of “Patesville” a thinly disguised Fayetteville.
Chesnutt was born in Cleveland to free Black parents from Fayetteville. When he was 9, the family moved back to Fayetteville after the Civil War.
Later, as a married man in his twenties, he returned to Cleveland, finding better opportunities up north to support his family. There, he would pass the bar and start a successful legal court reporting business. ....

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5 Sites of Savannah's Black History

5 Sites of Savannah's Black History
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curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past

curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past
curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past
The Evolution of Black Life in Little Dixie
Published December 21st, 2020 at 3:38 PM
In 1956, Pearl Spencer was one of the first Black students to enroll in Parkville’s newly integrated high school.
Spencer and her siblings still vividly remember their experiences growing up Black in Parkville – the good, the bad and the ugly.
A reader asked curiousKC to look into who lives in what was once the African American section of Parkville where they recently bought a home. This reader wanted to know “about varied influences – especially slavery and the emerging university – on life for Black folk then.” ....

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