The Roots of Virginia Culture, The Past is Present,
41st Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival,
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Contributed on May 07, 2007
By: Faried_88778
I found great inspiration in the lessons from Booker T Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. There were numerous others but growing up these were the people that helped to shape my thoughts.
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Contributed on June 04, 2007
By: KelvinB._Fowler
My Grandmother's (Rosetta Riddick) oral history about her Grandfather's (Lewis "Pop" Foster) traveling south to escape from slavery.
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Born in slavery, Frederick Douglass escaped from bondage in 1838 and soon emerged as one of the...
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Clergyman Henry Highland Garnet was well acquainted with the evils of America's "peculiar...
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Linked article: Save Our African American Treasures: A National Collections Initiative
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Contributed on October 10, 2007
By: beandeary
A brief story (with a corresponding compilation picture) of over 120 years of my Texas family’s history documented through our treasured family possessions that I began inheriting in 1981. I explain these possessions that begin with possessions owned by
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Contributed on November 03, 2007
By: Davidhopkins
The Randal Hopkins family reunion is an established tradition in the Thomasville, Georgia area for the last 46 years, with family coming from as far away as Seattle. For the last three years we have been researching records where 180 years ago our great-g
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