Primary Sources, Black History show

Primary Sources, Black History

Summary: American history preserved through the use of Primary sources, Black History, African American History~ The african experience; Shared by the legends themselves, their descendants, loved ones, genealogist and scholars. Presented by The Gist of Freedom

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 Foster Care Advocate, Sylvia Hooper! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:00

Slavery By Another Name….. Join The Gist of Freedom as we talk with Sylvia Hooper, Foster Parent Advocay Foundation Inc. Assistant Director  According to national statistics provided by Arrow and confirmed by Sylvia Hooper 40 to 50 percent of foster children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18. Sylvia also said 80 percent of the prison population once was in foster care, and that girls in foster care are 600 percent more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21. --------------- Join The Gist of Freedom as we talk with Sylvia Hooper, Co-Founder,  Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation  Sylvia was an adoptive child who went back into the system after her adoptive parents passed away at age 15.  Sylvia has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Adephi Unversity and has her Masters in Social Work . She is also working with the Administration for Children Services as a Child Protective Specialist.  ---------------------------------

 Rescue: Jane Johnson ~Wm. Still's Book ~ w/ Dr. Jackson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:34:00
 Violinist, Brooke Alford! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:00

Join The Gist of Freedom and Host Shellie Gaines as we welcome Brooke Alford!! "The Viosocalist" Brooke Alford is a contemporary national performer and recording Artist of the Violin. Brooke plays in styles including, but not limited to Contemporary Jazz, Gospel, Pop and R&B. She has opened for national and international recording artists such as Najee, Will Downing, Paul Taylor, Eric Darius, and Rick Braun, and has shared the stage with James Ingram, Kenneth Edmonds (Better known as "Babyface") and Alex Bugnon. Brooke has also been featured on Trinity Broadcasting Network's (TBN). Join The Gist of Freedom and Host Shellie Gaines we welcome Brooke Alford!

 12 Yr Old -Escapee Wm. H. Scott, Niagara Movement - Burkett | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:42:00

William H. Scott  (d. 1910), was a self  emancipated 12-year-old African American.  During the early years of the Civil War (1862), William attached himself to Union troops, served in the U.S. Army for 3 1/2 years, got an education, taught school and then became a Baptist minister in Washington, later in Boston.  He was the mentor to William Monroe Trotter, founder of the BOSTON GUARDIAN, and Scott was also one of the original 29 members of the Niagara Movement (predecessor organization to the NAACP).  Twelve years after escaping to freedom, he was lecturing on "The Black Man in History."

 ASALH ~Assoc. Study of African American Life & History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:00

Dr. Mary Frances Berry Speaking at the ASALH Annual Luncehon! Established on September 9, 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, we are the Founders of Black History  Month and carry forth the work of our founder, the Father of Black History.  We continue his legacy  of speaking a fundamental truth to the world--that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of  history and co-workers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, "The Kingdom of Culture."  ASALH's mission is to  create and disseminate knowledge about Black History, to be, in short, the nexus between the Ivory Tower  and the global public.  We labor in the service of Blacks and all humanity

 Historical integrated College -Racist events, Kim Simmons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:00

Oberlin College In 1835 became the first predominately white collegiate institution to admit African American male students and two years later it opened its doors to all women, becoming the first coeducational college in the country.   In 1862, Mary J Patterson earned a B.A. becoming the first African American woman to earn a degree from an American college. Other black women had graduated earlier but did not receive the collegiate degree (BA). As part of the Underground Railroad, Oberlin’s intricate network of back road routes and safe houses, the college and town provided refuge for fugitive slaves bound for Canada.  In 1858, students, faculty, and residents of Oberlin and nearby Wellington, Ohio rescued a runaway slave John Price from U.S. marshals, and transported him to freedom in Canada.   One year later three African American residents of the town of Oberlin, Shields Green, Lewis Sheridan Leary, and John Anthony Copeland, participated in John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Unfortunately recently, Classes were canceled after a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus. A police report has also detailed the defacement of Black History Month posters with the N-word, a "whites only" sign written above a water fountain, a swastika drawn on a science center window and a student knocked to the ground by a person making a derogatory comment about ethnicity. Two students are being investigated for possible involvement in the graffiti.The students have responded by organizing rallies of solidarity to show their disdain for the cowards who committed the racists acts!Click and Listen to  Kimberly Simmons, a descendant of Abolitionists Oberlin Graduates as she speaks on these disturbing incidents from a historical perspective with The Gist of Freedom host Preston Washington  www.BlogTalkRadio.com/BlackHistory

 Black Abolitionists Book- John Brown Raid & Civil War | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:00

Mary, Free, Educated & A Spy! Disguise... Confederate White House Slave   Mary was the best as she was working right in The Confederate President's home.  She had a photographic mind. Everything Mary saw on the Rebel President’s desk she could repeat word for word.    “Ellen Bond” was neither dim-witted, illiterate, nor a slave. In reality she was a free, well educated African American woman by the name of Mary Elizabeth Bowser. And she was a Union spy working right under Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s nose. For months during the most crucial period of the Civil War, as General Ulysses S. Grant maneuvered to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital, Mary supplied critical military intelligence to the Union army. In recognition of her contributions to the Union war effort, she was inducted into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1995.   Elizabeth was able to arrange for a friend to take Mary with her as a servant to help at social functions held by Varina Davis in the Confederate White House. Mary performed her servant role so well she was eventually taken on full time as, presumably, a slave hired out by her master.    

 Lincoln & Free Blacks Back To Africa Plan- Holzer! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:00

"Lincoln blames the Free Blacks for the war," Holzer explains. "[He] says, if it wasn't for your presence here this wouldn't be happening. Go where the ban is not upon you, he tells them. Go to the Caribbean, go to Africa." Watch the Video  On Aug. 14 1862, Abraham Lincoln hosted a “Deputation of Free Negroes” at the White House, led by the Rev. Joseph Mitchell, commissioner of emigration for the Interior Department. It was the first time African Americans had been invited to the White House on a policy matter. The five men were there to discuss a scheme that even a contemporary described as a “simply absurd” piece of “charlatanism”: resettling emancipated slaves on a 10,000-acre parcel of land in present-day Panama.   Edward M. Thomas, John F. Cook, Cornelius C. Clark, John T. Costin, and Benjamin McCoy—met with Lincoln in August 1862 to debate his proposal for a black colony in Central America Cook, Costin, and Clark were members of the Social Civil and Statistical Association, A black city-based organization. The SCSA had sought to "banish several emigration promoters from Washington" weeks before the delegation met with Lincoln. Many of the SCSA's members were connected with the prestigious Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church.    

 Migration ~Book reading Chp 9 & 10 ~Quarles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:45:00

Black Emigrationists~ Book Reading, Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles! Black Emigrationists Newspaper

 Rescues, Petitions, Texas- Black Abolitionists- Quarles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:44:00

Black Abolitionists chp 9 Benjamin Quarles ~"Before the ship's owner could arrest them under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law, a group of 6 black women rushed into the state Supreme Court . While the attorney for Morris was addressing the judge, Someone in the spectator's section shouted, "Go, go." Whereupon A colored woman "of great size," who scrubbed floors for a living, threw her arms around the neck of one officer, Immobilizing him while the other colored people rushed to the bench and bore Eliza and Polly Ann down the courthouse steps and shoved them into a waiting carriage.Eliza and Polly Ann were never recaptured, and their abettors went scot-free, although the Sheriff C.P. Sumner, father of Charles Sumner (movie Lincoln starring Tommie Lee Jones) was criticized for permitting such a breach of the peace. 

 Maya Angelou on Quilts & Slavery | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:00

Maya Angelou on Quilts & Slavery- Sunday, March 10 ~ Harriet Tubman Day!  On July 15th the producer of The Gist of Freedom was blessed with the opportunity, by chance to call in and speak to Maya Angelou on The Rolonda Watts Blog Talk Radio Show.   Ten Days of Harriet Tubman Activities  Delaware Governor Markell officially proclaims March 10th as Harriet Tubman Day, the centennial of Harriet Tubman’s death!   This Scenic Byway features true stories and real sites associated with Harriet Tubman    The Inaugural Delaware Harriet Tubman Commemorative 2 mile walk, ride, run and race event 

 The Free Black Vote- Book Black Abolitionists, Quarles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:44:00

Join The Gist of Freedom as we continue our reading -The Free Black Vote- Book Black Abolitionists, By Benjamin Quarles chapter 9. 

 Underground Railroad Canadian Tours` Lezlie Wells Harper | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:45:00

Click and Listen to Lezlie wells Harper, owner operator of  Niagara Bound Tours Company located in Canada- Tonight on The Gist of Freedom with host Preston Washington!   WWW.BlogTalkRadio.com/BLackHISTORY   NBT is an attraction tour company established in 2004 in the Niagara region that specializes in quality, customized, early Canadian Black history attraction tours (Underground Railroad era) known as “The Crossing Point Tour”.   Our goal is to provide our clients with a unique insight into the migration of Afro-Americans as they escaped slavery in the mid-19th century and settled in southern Ontario, Canada.   We create experiences that capture the essence of what was faced by those forced to flee the slave states, while also giving the historical perspective where local stories will also be told. The success of Niagara Bound Tours is based upon our exemplary knowledge of the period as it relates to this region, our customer service and our tour content.   Our customized tours include a step on guide who is a direct descendant of a fugitive slave from Kentucky whom came to Canada in 1850 settling in the Niagara Region.   All of our tours are customized to suit all budgets, all time frames and all groups with special attention given to student tours. Lunches, dinners or bagged lunches may also be included.   Let Niagara Bound Tours take you on the Crossing Point Experience. Book your tour with us today.  

 Join us @ Film Screening: Slavery By Another Name~ NYC | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:00

Join us in NYC at The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center  The Gist of Freedom is pleased to present in partnership with The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center and ILyasah Shabazz Enterprises: A Historic Film Screening "Slavery By Another Name" with Award Winning Filmmaker, Sam Pollard, Host, Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, Panelists Michael Coard, Dr.Walter Greason, Stephanie James Wilson and moderator Roy R. Paul!  Saturday February 16th, 7pm

 Traitors- Black Abolitionists & Underground Railroad | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:45:00

Dating from its origin, the Negro press printed the names of black informants,Freedom's Journal listing those of Moses Smith, formerly of Baltimore, and Nathan Gooms of New York, in its issue of November 7, 1828. The mere appearance of these names in the columns of the weekly was a sufficient deterrent to die other informers whose identity the editors threatened to reveal. When Martin R, Delany was editor of The Black Underground  Dr. Martin R. Delaney, founder of the Pittsburgh Mystery in 1842 and later was co-editor of the North Star. In August 1858 two runaways were betrayed by John Brodie, who had promised to assist them in returning to Covington, Kentucky, to effect the liberation of relatives. Brodie's treachery nearly cost him his life.  He was seized by a group of Negroes, who proceeded to give him three hundred blows with a paddle, a stroke for each dollar he was supposed to have received from the slave-catchers. Only the presence of the influential Henry Highland Garnet saved Brodie from further punishment. The badly mauled informer delivered himself to the police authorities, to be placed in jail for safe-keeping

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