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May
How Black History is Being Preserved in Williamsburg
As a family historian and founder of History Before Us, a project centered on capturing, preserving and advocating influential history, gathering oral history and conducting tireless research has been a staple of my innate being for the past 20 years. I’ve always been inquisitive about...
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16
May
Honoring and Preserving African American History in Williamsburg: How My Family Tree Brought Me Here
As a family historian and founder of History Before Us, gathering oral history and conducting tireless research has been a staple of my innate being for the past 20 years. I’ve always been inquisitive about my family surnames and how we settled in various southern...
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20
Jul
Peyton Caraway: A story of a leader
By David Britton, Graduate student at Middle Tennessee State University and intern with History Before Us. Like most histories of formerly enslaved people, Peyton Caraway’s early years are clouded by missing records and conflicting traditions. Put more simply – Black stories and genealogies are not usually...
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12
May
Kindred Spirts-Joycelyn and the chief
In 2019 while traveling to New Orleans for a memorial to celebrate the life of a beloved family member, I stopped in Africatown, Alabama to pay homage to the descendants of the Clotilda. The story of the Clotilda is widely known as being the “last...
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13
Nov
Louisville’s first black champ
In 1872, Canadian-born Henry Fitzbutler was the first black graduate of the University of Michigan’s Medical School. Prior to graduating the U of M, he was Detroit’s first black medical student. Dr. Fitzbutler’s road to success and humanitarianism did not come easy, his father was...
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15
Sep
The man, The myth, the Legend: A pirate Named Black Caesar
History as we know it does not discuss people of African descent as pirates. The tales normally tell of some swashbuckling European hero or villain rebelling against authority,liberating treasures untold, and maybe kidnapping a woman or two along the way. However, piracy played an important...
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18
Aug
1866 Civil Rights ACT and its blunders
The United States Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act on April 9th, 1866 (despite being vetoed by President Andrew Johnson), leading to the declaration that all individuals born in the country were to be citizens despite their race, color, and any other conviction....
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25
May
Juanita Craft and her persistence
At age 16, Craft’s fire was lit when her mother Eliza was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and turned away from a hospital that specialized in the treatment of TB based on the color of her skin. Her mother shortly succumbed afterwards due to the ailment....
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18
May
The Case of “Marcellus” : A syphilis experiment
Pt (patient) exposed at birth due to experimentation in African American males in the past. Patient reports being treated at the age 12.” ...
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