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State Journal-Register Print kicker: SANGAMON LINK Springfield’s Hicklin family provided two of Sangamon County’s earliest successful African American politicians, as well as leadership in the local civil rights movement. Hezkiah Hicklin was the first African-American to hold public office in Sangamon County, serving one term on the county Board of Supervisors. Newspaper records are incomplete, but Hicklin was casting votes as an assistant supervisor from Springfield’s First Ward by Aug. 28, 1874. It’s not clear when he took or left office, or even whether he was elected or appointed ...

Share Bringing seven decades of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life is the mission of the Colored Conventions Project (CCP). Co-founded by faculty director P. Gabrielle Foreman, the CCP is a scholarly and community research project focused on digitally preserving Black political activism from the 1830s to 1890s, some of which occurred in this region, near Syracuse University and across Central New York. P. Gabrielle Foreman Over the course of these seven decades, Black men and women traveled to attend meetings advertised as “Colored Conventions.” These political ...

January 29, 2021 01/29/2021 3:36 pm Navigating at-home learning in the middle of a pandemic can be challenging for parents, especially if you are trying to help supplement your child’s online schooling with fun and informative projects. This Black History Month, try incorporating some of the activities below into your family’s remote education routine. Play 'red light green light' The classic playground game is a great way to introduce your kids to Garrett Morgan, the inventor of the three-position traffic signal. The inventor was a pillar of his ...

>> lewis first came up with the phrase as a child in pike county, alabama. >> i didn't like segregation and racial discrimination. i didn't like the signs that said "white waiting," "colored waiti waiting", "white men," colored men." i would come home and ask my mother, my father, my grandparents why? they would say that's the way it is, boy. don't get in the way. don't get into trouble. >> born into sharecroppers. he was one of the 10 siblings growing up in the fields of cotton country. as a teenager he was inspired by the montgomery bus boycott and the sermons of the dr. martin luther king j...