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The Central Georgian
In Retrospect/The
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Benny Andrews, who has worn many
hats over the past 50 years as a painter, writer, printmaker, book illustrator,
and teacher presents his “John Lewis Series” in an exhibition that will open
December 21 through early April 2008 at the Tubman African American Museum
in downtown Macon. This series is Andrews’ illustrations for the children’s book
“John Lewis in the Lead – A Story of the Civil Rights Movement”. For more
information, call (478) 743-8544.
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This
Week in Black History
October 17, 1969
Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. elected
president of Michigan State University and became the first Black to head a
major, predominantly white university in the twentieth century.
October 18, 1926
Charles
"Chuck" Edward Berry born in San Jose, California, and later taken to St. Louis
Missouri, where he grew up. Berry regarded as one of the founders of Rock and
Roll and is responsible for such hits as "Johnny B. Good" and "Roll Over
Beethoven."
October 19, 1870
First
Blacks elected to the House of Representatives. Black Republicans won three of
the four congressional seats in South Carolina: Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C.
Delarge and Robert B. Elliott. Rainey was elected to an unexpired term in the
Forty-first Congress and was the first Black seated in the House.
October 20, 1898
The first African-American owned Insurance Company
On this date, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company was the first
African American owned insurance company.
Spike Lee gives voice to black American soldiers
with film...
ROME (Reuters) - Hollywood has mostly ignored the role played by black American
soldiers during World War Two, but director Spike Lee is about to set the record
straight.
His next film will tell the story of a group of soldiers with the racially
segregated, all-black 92nd Buffalo Division which fought against Nazi occupation
in Italy in 1944-45.
The film, based on James McBride's novel "Miracle at St. Anna", will be shot in
Tuscany, where the American soldiers found themselves trapped in the mountains
behind enemy lines, living with locals who had never seen a black person before.
More...
Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
The University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of
Education Digital Archive "contains documents and images which chronicle events
surrounding this historically significant case up to the present." Also see the
Library of Congress exhibit
With an Even Hand and
Eisenhower documents on
Little Rock.
Civil Rights Documentation Project
Project emphasizing civil rights legislation from 1963-1965
includes primary sources and a timeline.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Project which will "result in the creation of an
Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and
unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi."
Includes a collection of oral histories, photographs, and a selection of
manuscript materials including letters and diaries.
King papers
part of movement's past, future
ATLANTA (CNN) -- After
years at the Sotheby's auction house in New York, a collection of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers has come home to Atlanta.
The papers had been scheduled
for sale last year when an anonymous group ponied up a reported $32 million to
buy the roughly 10,000 documents and books.
The documents have been
entrusted to the library at King's alma mater, Morehouse College, and CNN has
been given rare access to King's writings, which illuminate his thoughts along
the difficult road that ended with his assassination. (Watch
Andrew Young describe King's final moments
 )
The collection features
7,000 papers written by King, including drafts of his 1963 "I Have a Dream"
speech and his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance address. They also include a
1946 college examination on the Bible, his earliest surviving theological
writing, and papers he was working on just before he was killed in 1968. (Take
a look at parts of the documents: Part 1 |
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