Bradley R. Gitz s column of Jan. 9 purports to correct what he believes are ignorant ideas about slavery. Instead, it presents a one-sided argument with enough misinformation to make it a whitewash of American history in both meanings of the phrase.
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Study rooms dedicated for couple who escaped slavery
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Library honoring Georgians who worked to build a better future for students
In 1848, William and Ellen Craft fled Georgia in disguise and for 19 years, left the country to escape slavery and become activists for freedom, literacy and education for Black Americans before and after the Civil War.
Nearly 175 years later, their names will be permanently etched at the heart of the birthplace of public higher education in the United States, with two study rooms in the Main Library of the University of Georgia dedicated in the couple’s honor. Along with the naming of two adjoining study rooms for Mary Blount Bowen Green, a little-known white schoolteacher from the same community, the markers will celebrate Georgians who worked to build a better future for the students of today.
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Dr. Charles Bolton, a professor emeritus of history at UA Little Rock, has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize for his book, “Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860.”
The Booker Worthen Literary Prize is awarded each year to the best work, fiction or nonfiction, by an author living in Arkansas. The prize was established in 1999 in the memory of William Booker Worthen, who was a member of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) Board of Trustees for 22 years, as well as part of the Worthen Bank empire. The award is funded in part by interest from an endowment for the award donated by the Worthen family.