America's Most Powerful Black Families

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We burned down entire cities, white neighborhoods that lost commerce.

How did the ability to burn down cities and white neighborhoods enrich the lives of black people? Was there a wealth transfer that I missed?

 

[Ish Gibor]

I wasn’t talking about protesting and marching. We burned down entire cities, white neighborhoods that lost commerce. You think the NYPD would have been held to account by the city council if black people in NY hadn’t wrecked shyt?

But it wasn’t mostly Black people who rioted as a majority. And what white neighborhoods are you talking about? It’s documented that far right wing groups infiltrated and rioted.

"White supremacists and drug cartels are playing off the George Floyd killing to create more havoc on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s governor said Saturday."
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed he had received reports of hordes of white supremacists who joined in the looting of businesses, NBC News reported.


"Mr. Prince, a contractor close to the Trump administration, contacted veteran spies for operations by Project Veritas, the conservative group known for conducting stings on news organizations and other groups."
Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups


"Editor’s note: St. Paul Mayor and Governor Tim Walz on Sunday backed down from their claims on Saturday that 80% of those arrested for looting were from out of state or out of town. They still stressed that “bad actors” from outside the cities played a significant role in the destruction."
Minnesota Officials Link Arrested Looters to ‘White Supremacist’ Groups


"A fake antifa Twitter account that called for violence was actually run by a white nationalist group, according to a Twitter spokesperson.
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The account was removed Monday for breaking Twitter's rules against platform manipulation, spam, and inciting violence, NBC News first reported.

A Twitter spokesperson told Business Insider that this isn't the first time that users linked to Identity Evropa have created fake or inflammatory accounts to spread "hateful content." The @ANTIFA_US account was created by the same person who created those previously-identified Identity Evropa accounts, the spokesperson said."
An 'ANTIFA' Twitter account that called for looting 'white hoods' was actually run by white nationalist group Identity Evropa


"Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area officers tied to right-wing Boogaloo group, prosecutors allege

He's military police in USAF.

Carrillo had been stationed at Travis Air Force Base since 2018, where he was attached to the 60th Security Forces Squadron, a military police unit. He also led an elite security unit, base officials said."-SFChronicle.

Two men associated with an extremist movement whose goal is to incite civil unrest face federal prosecution in the fatal shooting in Oakland last month of a federal security officer, officials said Tuesday.

Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, who was charged in state court last week with the killing of Damon Gutzwiller, a Santa Cruz County sheriff’s sergeant, now faces federal charges along with another man in the Oakland slaying."
Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area officers tied to right-wing 'boogaloo' group, prosecutors allege

Man accused in deputy ambush scrawled extremist 'Boogaloo' phrases in blood

 

[Ish Gibor]

(Monique M. Taylor, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 37, The Politics of Identity and Difference (1992), pp. 101-128 (28 pages), Can You Go Home Again? Black Gentrification and the Dilemma of Difference on JSTOR)


"Thomas, now a professional consultant, has memories of playing in the abandoned train station as a kid, but he's thankful that the building — for years a symbol of the city's decay — is finally being fixed up, bringing in more businesses and attention to the area."
(David Sands, October 27/ 2020, Resilient Neighborhoods: Detroit nonprofits respond to the gentrification question)

 

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SUSAN RICE
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and National Security Advisor

Spoiler: Speaking about family tree

(From Rice's book)
My father was born in segregated South Carolina to parents who were the children of slaves. Despite the proximate legacy of the Civil War and the backlash against Reconstruction, my paternal grandparents, and even my great-grandfather, were college-educated.

Walter Allen Simpson Rice, my great-grandfather, was born a slave in South Carolina in 1845. At the age of eighteen, following the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Walter joined the Union Army during the last bloody years of the Civil War, serving with the Massachusetts 55th Volunteer Regiment.
With the support of his benefactor, Lieutenant Charles F. Lee, Walter Rice completed his primary education in Massachusetts. Upon his return to Laurens County, South Carolina, Walter became a Freedmen’s Bureau public school teacher and entered local politics. Shortly after being elected county clerk, however, his tenure ended in his exile from Laurens County when, as my father recounted, great-grandfather Walter faced death threats from the Ku Klux Klan and fled to New Jersey. Walter went on to obtain his divinity degree at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and eventually became a presiding elder in the New Jersey branch of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.

Even more than his rare education, what impressed me most about my great grandfather was his deep commitment to the advancement of former slaves. Rev. Walter Rice spent ten years collaborating with fellow black faith leaders in the New Brunswick area on the founding of the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, more commonly known as the “Bordentown School.”

Sometimes dubbed “the Tuskegee of the North,” the Bordentown School opened in 1886 with just eight students in a two-story frame house on West Street. Its ranks gradually filled with additional students, many of them homeless or abandoned children and some whose working parents could not find an appropriate school to house them. With limited funds to support his growing institution, but a grant of $3,000 from the state, Walter Rice was able to lease seven small buildings scattered across Bordentown.

In 1897, the school was bequeathed a highly coveted thirty-three-acre estate, which gave it greatly expanded campus with panoramic views overlooking the Delaware River. At the same time, Bordentown began to receive sustained state support and eventually became part of the New Jersey public school system.

On our way to and from Maine, Dad would point out the exit on the New Jersey Turnpike for Bordentown, explaining to me and Johnny with pride how the school epitomized his family’s devotion to education and the socioeconomic advancement of blacks. Though we never stopped to visit the dilapidated former campus, Dad described how Bordentown eventually became a highly successful, four-hundred-acre coeducational boarding institution, which taught its approximately 450 students technical skills such as farming and cooking, as well as a full college preparatory curriculum, ranging from Latin to physics. For generations, the school produced leaders in the African American community, while welcoming such luminaries to campus as Booker T. Washington, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and Duke Ellington.

Ironically, Bordentown was compelled to close in 1955, after the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered the all-black, state-supported institution legally unviable.

Great-grandfather Walter Rice died in 1899 at fifty-four years old, the father of six children by two wives. One of those children—from his first marriage—was my grandfather, Ulysses Simpson Rice, who followed his father’s path, first to teaching and later to the ministry. With a divinity degree from Lincoln University, Ulysses returned to South Carolina and married my grandmother, Sue Pearl Suber. They had four children: Ulysses Simpson Jr., (known as Suber), Gladys Clara, Pansy Victoria, and the youngest, my father, Emmett John Rice.

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LOIS dikkSON RICE
(From Obituary)
Lois Anne dikkson was born on Feb. 28, 1933, in Portland, Me., the daughter of David Augustus dikkson and the former Mary Daly. Her father was a janitor at a music store; her mother was a maid. Both were Jamaican immigrants who sent all five of their children to college.

She graduated in 1954 from Radcliffe College, where she majored in history and literature and was president of the student body.

Her marriage to Emmett J. Rice, an economist and a governor of the Federal Reserve, ended in divorce. In addition to her daughter, from that marriage, she is survived by a son, E. John Rice Jr., the chief executive of Management Leadership for Tomorrow; four stepchildren; and four grandchildren.

Ms. Rice later married Alfred B. Fitt, general counsel of the Congressional Budget Office and of the Army. He died in 1992.

In the business world, Lois Rice was a director on several major company boards, including those of Firestone, McGraw-Hill and the Control Data Corporation, the supercomputer manufacturer. She was also a senior vice president of Control Data.

She joined the College Entrance Examination Board (now known as the College Board) in 1959. As an executive there, she promoted and helped shape the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program, whose chief sponsor was Senator Claiborne Pell, Democrat of Rhode Island.

The program, begun in 1972, awards grants rather than loans, mostly to undergraduates, on the basis of financial need. (A grant is designed to fill the gap between the cost of college and the family’s estimated contribution. This academic year, the maximum grant is $5,815.)


Ms. Rice continued to promote the program as director of the board’s Washington office and as its national vice president from 1973 to 1981.

Mr. Pell died in 2009. His grandson Clay Pell IV, a former deputy assistant secretary of the Education Department, said in a statement after Ms. Rice’s death, “This program was not inevitable, and it would not have come into existence without her, nor survived in the decades since without her passionate advocacy

Since 1991, Ms. Rice had been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, researching higher-education policy and promoting racial diversity. Last June, she and Susan Rice, a former Brookings senior fellow, were honored as the only mother-daughter research duo in the think tank’s history.

“Lois was a giant in the field of education,” Arne Duncan, the former secretary of education, said in a statement. “For so many of us, she was a hero, a role model and an example of what true service is all about. She helped create a pathway to college for literally millions of low-income and first-generation college goers, changing the trajectories of their families forever.”

 

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Spoiler: Speaking at Allen University

1923 Encyclopedia entry about William David Chappelle, his paternal great grandfather


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BEATRICE MURRAY REED, his maternal grandmother

(From Obituary)




Beatrice Murray Reed, 83, a retired Washington area real estate broker who had been active in civil rights groups, died of cancer Aug. 22 at her home in Silver Spring.

Mrs. Reed had owned and operated Beatrice M. Reed Real Estate Co., first in Washington and then in Silver Spring, since 1949.

She was a past president of the Washington Real Estate Brokers Association (Realtists), the Century Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, and the Caribbean American Intercultural Organization.

She had served on the boards of Black Professionals in International Affairs and the National Congress of Black Women Inc. She was a life member of Africare.

Mrs. Reed, was born in Grenada, West Indies and came to the Washington area as a teenager. She graduated from Cardoza High School and Howard University.

Before starting her real estate business, she had worked for the War Production Board, served on the staff of a USO club for black soldiers at Union Station and was executive assistant to the local director of the NAACP.

Mrs. Reed also had belonged to the Urban League and had taken part in such civil rights work as projects involving the integration of unions in the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Her marriages to George Reed and then Elmer Jones both ended in divorce.

Survivors include a daughter by her first marriage, Yvonne K. Seon of Cheverly; a sister, Marie Murray Jackson of New York; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren

 

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Portrait of an exceptional woman

December 02, 2020

New book profiles key civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell
When University of Delaware historian Alison Parker was researching activists of the 19th century for a book she wrote in 2010 on women’s political thought, she couldn’t believe that there was no biography of one of the most exceptional of those activists—Mary Church Terrell.

“I was really intrigued by her story, and amazed that no one had written it,” said Parker, who is Richards Professor of American History and chair of UD’s history department. “The first leader of a national Black organization, the National Association of Colored Women, and a co-founder of the NAACP, credited with establishing Black History Day to commemorate Frederick Douglass … she was a civil rights activist her whole life.”

Once Parker finished her book on women’s political thought, she began focusing on Terrell. The result is a new book, Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell, published this month by the University of North Carolina Press.

Parker connected with descendants of Terrell, who showed her items that had belonged to her and had been kept in a storage locker. They provided a wealth of information about Terrell’s remarkable life, including letters and diaries never before studied by historians. Parker also helped Terrell’s family arrange for the donation of her possessions to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In addition, Oberlin College has accepted Terrell’s papers for its archives and is planning a digital history project.

“Unlike research topics where you worry about a lack of material, in this case, there’s almost too much material—she saved every scrap of paper,” Parker said of Terrell. “She had an awareness of history, and she knew that she had a story to tell.”

And it’s quite a story. Born into slavery in Tennessee during the Civil war, Terrell had two white grandfathers, and those biological ties meant that her family was better positioned economically when slavery ended, Parker said.

Her father, Robert Church, owned a saloon and became wealthy after buying up properties that white owners abandoned in Memphis when they fled the city during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. He used his money to build up a neighborhood known as Beale Street, the birthplace of the blues, and was known as the first Black millionaire in the South. Terrell’s mother owned a hair salon whose customers were white women.

Terrell’s life was filled with pioneering accomplishments. She earned a four-year degree at Oberlin College—a program known as a “gentleman’s course” because most women pursued two-year degrees—and became a teacher in Washington, D.C. She became an anti-lynching activist and in 1896 was the first president of the new National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, which focused on suffrage and civil rights, making her the first leader of any national Black organization.

“Her life gives a fascinating window into the way affluent African Americans used their resources to take on activist causes,” Parker said.

Parker’s work on Terrell, who was a suffragist who picketed the White House with the National Woman’s Party, has gained attention, especially as America marked two milestone anniversaries in 2020, the centennial of the 19th Amendment allowing certain women the vote, and the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment, allowing non-white men the vote.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I posted these passages on the ethnogenesis of AfroAmerican identity in other threads but they give context to many questions posed in this thread such as:

1. Are these people black? They look like cacs
2. Did they ever look out for the people beneath them?
3. How come they're all light/where are the darker ones?

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Spoiler

 

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Sometimes dubbed “the Tuskegee of the North,” the Bordentown School opened in 1886

Wow. Never heard of this school. There have been schools like this all over and all people can say is how come black leaders have not done enough in the realm of black education.

Here is a school that Umar Johnson could've bought that had an esteem history of educating the marginalized if he was really serious about education.

 

[get these nets]

Wow. Never heard of this school. There have been schools like this all over and all people can say is how come black leaders have not done enough in the realm of black education.

Here is a school that Umar Johnson could've bought that had an esteem history of educating the marginalized if he was really serious about education.

I was only aware of Bordentown's history because it was in Jersey, and we had some great Black teachers in high school.

I stopped paying attention to the chorus of people who repeat the same YTer mantras year after year, even after they are debunked.

Speaking of year after year, Johnson's yearly antics,false starts, and pump fakes went from being comical to sad.

 

[invalid]

I posted these passages on the ethnogenesis of AfroAmerican identity in other threads but they give context to many questions posed in this thread such as:

1. Are these people black? They look like cacs
2. Did they ever look out for the people beneath them?
3. How come they're all light/where are the darker ones?

How do you obtain these book excerpts?

The excerpts about Charleston is surprising. Charleston has always been a very aristocratic city and the black elites that had ties to Charleston's white aristocratic families were known to be very colorist and rigid. Even more than DC and up there with New Orleans. So to hear that they were also the first to strike down their color barriers and integrate with the broader black population is interesting. This also explain some confusion that I had. You can generally get a sense of which towns are still on that colorism trip by looking at photos of the black elite organizations. I've made a mental note before how I was surprised to see how brown Charleston's Boule members are, after looking through some of the Boule Journals over the years, compared to, say New Orleans. This explains why.

And its striking how many of the northern cities maintained colorism while many southern cities divested from it. Like Detroit, for instance. I've said this before on here but Detroit folks are a trip. Evil, even. I remember visiting family when I was younger and they and their friends were just very insular people. I found out later how Detroit had the largest black middle class in the country at one point and some very very wealthy blacks, which I didn't know before, but it made sense.

But not just Detroit, lots of smaller midwestern towns - Columbus, Cleveland, Indianapolis, all still appear to hold on to some small vestiges of colorism, where it's just apparent.

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I've been meaning to make a thread on this but do you think the reason the ADOS faction are so staunchly opposed to the idea of Pan Africanism, is because Pan Africanism was born out of bourgeoise ideas? It's origins born out of the New England black abolitionist and professional elites, with the idea of leveraging Africa as a resource to propel our interest. Pan-Africanism would then be viewed as a child of black capitalism.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

How do you obtain these book excerpts?

pdf books or google books + page ripper

The excerpts about Charleston is surprising. Charleston has always been a very aristocratic city and the black elites that had ties to Charleston's white aristocratic families were known to be very colorist and rigid. Even more than DC and up there with New Orleans. So to hear that they were also the first to strike down their color barriers and integrate with the broader black population is interesting. This also explain some confusion that I had. You can generally get a sense of which towns are still on that colorism trip by looking at photos of the black elite organizations. I've made a mental note before how I was surprised to see how brown Charleston's Boule members are, after looking through some of the Boule Journals over the years, compared to, say New Orleans. This explains why.

And its striking how many of the northern cities maintained colorism while many southern cities divested from it. Like Detroit, for instance. I've said this before on here but Detroit folks are a trip. Evil, even. I remember visiting family when I was younger and they and their friends were just very insular people. I found out later how Detroit had the largest black middle class in the country at one point and some very very wealthy blacks, which I didn't know before, but it made sense.

But not just Detroit, lots of smaller midwestern towns - Columbus, Cleveland, Indianapolis, all still appear to hold on to some small vestiges of colorism, where it's just apparent.

this happened because alot of the early (I'm talking pre-official "great black migration") migrants of the South were light skinned and of some type of well-to-do'ness; this ended up carrying over to some of the elite circles and how they would make distinctions between later migrants and themselves

I've been meaning to make a thread on this but do you think the reason the ADOS faction are so staunchly opposed to the idea of Pan Africanism, is because Pan Africanism was born out of bourgeoise ideas? It's origins born out of the New England black abolitionist and professional elites, with the idea of leveraging Africa as a resource to propel our interest. Pan-Africanism would then be viewed as a child of black capitalism.

Nah, I don't they're looking at it (anti pan-africanism) that deeply lol

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Long post with blood relatives/marriages but so many branches

Learys

Mathew Nathaniel Leary Sr. children:


Henrietta R. Leary Evans
1827–1908

Sarah Jane Leary Evans
1828–1900


Mathew Nathaniel Leary
1833–1892


Lewis Sheridan Leary
1835–1859


Hon. John Sinclair Leary
1840–1904


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Matthew Leary sr

Also the Pattersons

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Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859), an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed

an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed

Leary's father was a free born African-American harnessmaker. Lewis Leary was born at Fayetteville, North Carolina. His paternal grandparents were an Irishman, Jeremiah O'Leary, who fought in the American Revolution under General Nathanael Greene, and his wife of African, European and Native American descent. His great grandfather, Aaron Revels, also fought in the revolution. Through Revels, he was a cousin to Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African-American to serve in the United States Senate. His brother was North Carolina politician and lawyer, John S. Leary[1]

In 1857, Lewis Leary moved to Oberlin. There he married Mary Patterson, an African-American graduate of Oberlin College. Leary became involved with abolitionists in Oberlin, which had an active community. Later, he met John Brown in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1858, Leary participated in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, when fugitive slave John Price was forcibly taken from the custody of a U.S. Marshal to prevent his being returned to slavery in the South. Leary was not among the 37 men (12 of them free blacks) who were indicted and jailed for their actions. As a result of negotiations between state officials (who had arrested the US Marshal and his party) and federal officials, only Simon Bushnell and Charles Henry Langston were tried; both were convicted, and served light sentences, in part because of Langston's eloquent speech in their defense.[2]

Leary may have been the first recruit from Oberlin to join Brown's army. He left Mary and their six-month-old daughter Louise at home. Accompanied by John A. Copeland, Leary went to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to join Brown. Leary died eight days after the attack from wounds suffered in the conflict at Harper's Ferry. Copeland was captured, tried and later executed. After Leary's death, the abolitionists James Redpath (editor for the New York Tribune) and Wendell Phillips helped raise money for Mary and Louise Leary's support and the girl's education.

In 1869 the widow Mary Patterson Leary married again, to the Ohio abolitionist Charles Henry Langston. The family moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where they remained for the rest of their lives. In 1872 Charles and Mary's daughter Caroline Mercer Langston was born. She would become the mother of the renowned poet Langston Hughes

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Spoiler

The Revels were blood cousins to the Learys

Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827[note 1] – January 16, 1901)

(September 27, 1827[note 1] – January 16, 1901) was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress when he was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era.

During the American Civil War, Revels had helped organize two regiments of the United States Colored Troops and served as a chaplain. After serving in the Senate, Revels was appointed as the first president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) and served from 1871 to 1873 and 1876 to 1882. Later in his life, he served again as a minister.

Revels attended the Beech Grove Quaker Seminary, a school in Union County, Indiana founded by Quakers, and Darke County Seminary in Ohio.[3] He was a second cousin to Lewis Sheridan Leary, one of the men who was killed taking part in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and to North Carolina lawyer and politician John S. Leary.

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John S. Leary (August 17, 1845 – December 9, 1904)

was a lawyer and politician in Fayetteville and Charlotte, North Carolina. He was one of the first black lawyers in North Carolina and was a member of the state legislature from 1868 to 1870. He was an alderman in Fayetteville and later held federal government appointments. He was the first dean of the law school at Shaw University in 1890.

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The/a cousin of the Learys/Revels

John Anthony Copeland Jr. (1834–1859)

was born a free black in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1843 when he was a child, his family moved north to Oberlin, Ohio, where he later attended Oberlin College's preparatory (high school) division. He became involved in abolitionist and antislavery activities, and was a highly visible leader in the successful Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858.[1] Copeland joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, was captured, convicted of murder and conspiracy to incite slaves to rebellion. He was hanged on December 16, 1859. There were 1,600 spectators.[2] His family tried but failed to recover his body, which was taken by medical students for dissection.

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Lewis Sheridan Lary's wife before his death: Mary S Patterson

she had a first cousin named: Mary Jane Patterson

Mary Jane Patterson (September 12, 1840 – September 24, 1894)

was the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree, in 1862.

Mary Jane Patterson was the oldest of Henry Irving Patterson and Emeline Eliza (Taylor) Patterson's children. There is conflicting data on how many siblings she had, but most sources cite between seven and ten. Henry Patterson worked as a bricklayer and plasterer who gained his freedom, after Mary was born, in 1852. After this, he moved his family north to Ohio. The Pattersons settled in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1856. Oberlin had a large community of black families; some were freed slaves and some were fugitive slaves. Oberlin was popular because it had a racially integrated co-ed college. Henry Patterson worked as a master mason, and for many years the family boarded large numbers of black students in their home.

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Mary Jane Patterson would later marry: Charles Henry Langston

Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892)

was an American abolitionist and political activist who was active in Ohio and later in Kansas, during and after the American Civil War, where he worked for black suffrage and other civil rights. He was a spokesman for blacks of Kansas and "the West".[1]

Born free in Louisa County, Virginia, he was the son of a wealthy white planter and his common-law wife of African American-Pamunkey ancestry, whom his father freed. His father provided for his sons' education and ensured Langston and his brothers inherited his estate. In 1835 Langston and his older brother Gideon were the first African Americans to attend Oberlin College in Ohio.

Langston worked for 30 years for equal rights, suffrage and education in Ohio and Kansas. In 1858, Langston was tried with a white colleague for the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a cause célèbre that was a catalyst for increasing support for abolition. That year Langston helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society and, with his younger brother John as president, led it as executive secretary. After the American Civil War, he was appointed as general superintendent of refugees and freedmen for the Freedmen's Bureau in Kansas. In 1872 he was appointed as principal of the Quindaro Freedman's School (later Western University), the first black college west of the Mississippi River.

He was an older brother of John Mercer Langston, an accomplished attorney and activist, who had numerous appointed posts, and in 1888 was the first black person elected to the United States Congress from Virginia (and the last for nearly a century).

The Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of 1858 in was a key event in the history of abolitionism in the United States. A cause celèbre and widely publicized, thanks in part to the new telegraph, it is one of the series of events leading up to Civil War.

John Price, an escaped slave, was arrested in Oberlin, Ohio, under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. To avoid conflict with locals, whose abolitionism was well known, the U.S. marshal and his party took him to the first train stop out of Oberlin heading south: Wellington. Rescuers from Oberlin followed them to Wellington, took Price by force from the marshal and escorted him back to Oberlin, from where he headed via the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

Thirty-seven rescuers were indicted, but as a result of state and federal negotiations, only two were tried in federal court. The case received national attention, and defendants argued eloquently against the law. When rescue allies went to the 1859 Ohio Republican convention, they added a repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law to the party platform. The rescue and continued activism of its participants kept the issue of slavery as part of the national discussion.

Aftermath
In time, regional tensions over slavery, constitutional interpretation, and other factors led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Oberlin-Wellington rescue is considered important as it not only attracted widespread national attention but occurred in a region of Ohio known for its Underground Railroad activity. Those who participated in the rescue and their allies continued to be active in Ohio and national politics. In 1859 those who attended the Ohio Republican convention succeeded in adding a repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to the Ohio party platform. The rescue and continued actions of its participants brought the issue of slavery into national discussion.[1]

Two participants in the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue—Lewis Sheridan Leary and John A. Copeland, along with Oberlin resident Shields Green—went on to join John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Leary was killed during the attack. Copeland and Green were captured and tried along with John Brown. They were convicted of treason and executed on December 16, 1859, two weeks after Brown.

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his more famous brother was:

John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897)

was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. An African American, he became the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, an historically black college.

Born free in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed race and a white planter father, in 1888 Langston was elected to the U.S. Congress as the first representative of color from Virginia. Joseph Hayne Rainey, the black Republican congressman from South Carolina, had been elected in 1870 during the Reconstruction era.

In the Jim Crow era of the later nineteenth century, Langston was one of five African Americans elected to Congress from the South before the former Confederate states passed constitutions and electoral rules from 1890 to 1908 that essentially disenfranchised blacks, excluding them from politics. After that, no African Americans would be elected from the South until 1973, after the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to enforce their constitutional franchise rights.

Langston's early career was based in Ohio where, with his older brother Charles Henry Langston, he began his lifelong work for African-American freedom, education, equal rights and suffrage. In 1855 he was one of the first African Americans in the United States elected to public office when elected as a town clerk in Ohio

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Mary Petterson Leary Langston + Charles Langston would have a daughter by the name of: Carolina Mercer Langston

Carolina Mercer Langston (February 22, 1873 – June 3, 1938)


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she would later have a vary famous son:

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967)
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Bonus:

Fayettville State was partially founded by Matthew Leary Sr and the father of the well known poet, Charles Chesnutt

“To me, it is so significant to note that here you have these seven black men who take matters into their own hands, not just for their project, but the future of coloreds — as the term was used in that time,” said Bertha Miller, the university’s historian.
The deed the founders signed was registered on Nov. 29, 1867, which is now recognized as the official date of the beginning of Fayetteville State University. The Howard School would open two years later, described in its day as “a large commodious building” erected at a cost of $3,800. There, the students — a total of 302 in first- through eighth grades that first term — were taught their ABCs, how to read and how to write.
The Fayetteville community would set a precedent in the founding of the school. Rather than as an initiative coming down from Northern philanthropy or a religious organization, the Howard School represented the foresight of a black community to provide education for its children, Miller said. With three upstairs rooms, it stood in contrast to the one-room state schools built for whites and for blacks during that era in the South.

The Howard School evolved into the state’s first school for black teachers. Nearly a century later, it became part of the University of North Carolina system. And today, the 140-acre campus along Murchison Road has 45 buildings and about 6,300 students.
And it all started with the two-story schoolhouse that stood on a foundation of bricks.

 

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cont......one of the Leary sisters produced more offshoots/branches

Henrietta R. Leary Evans

(BIRTH 17 Feb 1827
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 15 Aug 1908 (aged 81)
Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA)

was a human rights activist long after her brother and nephew’s deaths at Harpers Ferry. As late as 1906, at the age of 69, she addressed the 2nd annual meeting of the Niagara Movement, an African American civil rights group founded by W.E.B. DuBois and others to oppose Jim Crow and disenfranchisement

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She was married to a man named: Henry Evans.....a few of the children they had went to be very influential in the afroamerican community

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Mrs Anna Jane Evans (1857–1955)

was an American civic leader, educator, and early advocate of free kindergarten and the training of kindergarten teachers. In 1898 she successfully lobbied Congress for the first federal funds for kindergarten classes, and introduced kindergarten to the Washington, D.C. public school system.

She graduated from Oberlin College in 1876.

Evans came from a family of activists. In 1858, her father was one of a group of men who were arrested for attempting to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. The incident became known as the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue. Her uncle, Lewis Sheridan Leary, was killed in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and her cousin John Anthony Copeland, Jr., was hanged with Brown.[1] Years later, her mother delivered an address at Harpers Ferry at the second annual meeting of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights group founded by W. E. B. Du Bois.

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^^her brother below

Wilson Bruce Evans (1866-1918)

1891 Graduate of Howard University Medical School.

Wilson Bruce Evans (1866-1918), the son of Henrietta Leary (1827-1908) and Henry Evans (1817-1886) was born in Oberlin, Ohio.

He was an educator in Washington, D.C., and physician from an abolitionist family originating in North Carolina.

He received his medical degree from Howard University in 1891 before dedicating his career to education endeavors like his sisters, Anna Evans Murray (1857-1955) and Mary P. Evans Wilson (circa1867-1928).

He was a teacher in Burrville County Schools, principal of Mott School, Director of Evening Schools in the District of Columbia; and organizer and first principal of Armstrong Manual Training School.

Dr. Evans also served as Quartermaster Sergeant in the National Guard of The District of Columbia; retiring as Captain.

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Anna Jane Evans would latter marry another great:

Daniel Alexander Payne Murray

(1852-1925) was an American bibliographer, author, politician, and historian. He also worked as an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress.[1]

Murray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 3, 1852. In 1861, he went to work at the United States Senate Restaurant managed by his brother who was also a caterer. He joined the professional staff of the Library of Congress in 1871. He was eighteen years old, and only the second Black American to work for the Library. Murray became the personal assistant to the Librarian of Congress, Ainsworth Rand Spofford at the age of nineteen.

By 1881, he had risen to become assistant librarian, a position he held for forty-one years. Murray married educator Anna Jane Evans (1858 - 1955) on April 2, 1879, with whom he had seven children (five lived to adulthood); the couple became a major force in the social and civic life of the District of Columbia.

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Daniel Alexander Payne Murray and Anna Jane Evans would later give birth to:

Nathaniel Allison Murray (1884-1959)

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Bonus on Daniel Murray's father/Nathaiel's grandfather: George Murray

 

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Long post with blood relatives/marriages but so many branches

Knew the connection between Langston Hughes and John Mercer Langston.
Didn't know their connection to the Murrays. Damn.
My grandmother's maternal family is from Ohio.
Grandmother attended Oberlin as did her mother and grandfather.
She left after a year though and transferred to the University of Chicago.

That family is dizzying. I'm sure there are some current prominent folks related to all of them.

 

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Knew the connection between Langston Hughes and John Mercer Langston.
Didn't know their connection to the Murrays. Damn.

he had some other connections I wasn't aware of; I didn't post them yet

My grandmother's maternal family is from Ohio.
Grandmother attended Oberlin as did her mother and grandfather.
She left after a year though and transferred to the University of Chicago.

dope

That family is dizzying. I'm sure there are some current prominent folks related to all of them.

I ran across some modern day descendants to some of these folks when I was looking into the different branches