America's Most Powerful Black Families

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another in that Langston Hughes clan:

Hiram Revels with wife and kids

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Spoiler

he had a daughter by the name of

Susie Revels Cayton (1870 – 1943[1])

was a writer, editor, activist, and leader in the black community in Seattle at the start of the 20th century.[2]

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she would later marry

Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (1859–1940)

was an American journalist and political activist.


Cayton went to Seattle, Washington, in the early 1890s, launching his own newspaper, the Seattle Republican, in 1894. The paper was the longest-lived of seven African-American newspapers appearing in Seattle between 1891 and 1901, terminating only in 1913.

A second publishing venture was launched by Cayton in 1916, with the launch of the eponymous Cayton's Weekly. Unlike its predecessor, this four-page tabloid was focused upon national and local news of interest to a black readership

Horace's son Horace R. Cayton Jr. (1903–1970) became an educator, researcher, government official, newspaper columnist, and famous sociologist, notable for his anthropological work Black Metropolis, which he co-authored with St. Clair Drake. Lisa S. Weitzman says on Answers.com: "With the purpose of educating white America, the book further exposed and explained African American conduct, personality, and culture which emerged from the conditions imposed by the white world. Ultimately, Cayton and Drake concluded their book with a call for the government to work more aggressively to help African Americans achieve equality. Like his father, Cayton expressed an ongoing concern for racial equality and civil rights, a theme to which he repeatedly returned in his regular column for the Pittsburgh Courier."[4]

Another son, Revels Cayton, became a labor leader and deputy mayor of San Francisco. Daughter Madge Cayton, like her brother Horace, earned a degree from the University of Washington, in her case a business degree. Another daughter, Lillie Cayton, was a social activist in Seattle and later in San Diego, California.

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picture with Langston Hughes and Horace Cayton jr

 

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cont from the same clan(s)..........








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The Evans Brothers:

Born free in Orange County, North Carolina, the Evans brothers learned their trades as young men and married two sisters, Henrietta (who married Henry c. 1844) and Sarah Jane (who married Wilson Bruce in 1854) Leary, also free-born African Americans. After the families moved north together in 1854, the brothers established a cabinet shop and later a store. They were part of a growing African American presence that numbered 442 persons in a total population of 2,114 in Oberlin by 1860.

Both Evans brothers participated in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue in 1858. This incident began when John Price, a fugitive slave residing in Oberlin, was captured by slavecatchers who took him to Wellington, the town south of Oberlin, for transport via railroad to Kentucky. Oberlin residents and students, black and white, intervened to rescue Price, who was then secretly transported to Canada. As a result, 37 Oberlinians, including the Evans brothers, faced indictment for breaking the Fugitive Slave Law. Jailed in Cleveland while awaiting trial, the Oberlin-Wellington Rescuers were hailed as martyrs for the abolitionist cause. Wilson Bruce Evans and his brother spent 84 days in jail until prosecutors in Lorain County agreed to halt proceedings against the slavecatchers in exchange for the dropping of charges against the rescuers.

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Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898)
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his brother below: Henry Evans 1817 - 1886 (I marked him and his brother Wilson off in the pic below)

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Spoiler

Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898) is/was the uncle to Dr Wilson Bruce Evans (1866-1918) that I posted above.




Dr Wilson Bruce Evans (1866-1918...........his father was Henry Evans)

was the father of the famous/internationally known black opera singer:

Annie Lillian “Lillian Evanti” Evans (August 12, 1890 – December 6, 1967)

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one of the Leary clan (a sister) was married to: Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898)

Sarah Jane Leary (Apr 1828-May 1900 )




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They had a daughter:

Sara Jane Evans (1865–1928)

was a niece of Sheridan S. Leary, who was killed at the John Brown raid at Harper's Ferry. She was also a cousin of John A. Copeland, who was hung with John Brown on the same scaffold,--and a niece of John Leary, for many years an eminent lawyer in North Carolina.

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she was to later marry:

Thomas Sewell Inborden (1865 - 1951)

He and his wife were a big part/founders of the Bricks school

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To bring all of that into modern times:

Melany Hughes is reflected in the glass of a portrait of her ancestor Wilson Bruce Evans. The family is undertaking a project to restore the home of the abolitionist who was arrested follwing the Oberlin Wellington slave rescue. The house was empty for years and at some point the heat went out causing extensive damage to the house..

Descendants of Wilson Bruce Evans, who ran part of The Underground Railroad in his basement, are working to restore his 33 E. Vine St. home built by him and his brother in the 1800s.

The Evans’ family home is filled with history. Despite the cobwebs and debris on the ground, pictures still hang on the walls and old books fill shelves.

Structurally, the house is still sound. The stairs don’t creak and much of the furniture, which Wilson Bruce Evans built, has escaped with little damage. It’s still not the childhood house Melany Hughes was expecting to find.

The home where she spent her summers looks much different. The ceilings are tearing and some sort of animal clearly made a little home for itself while the house sat empty.

Debris litters the ground and sheet of dust clings to the furniture. The underground railroad Evans ran inside his home is still in the basement, with hidden chambers.

Hughes is the great-great-great granddaughter of Wilson Bruce Evans. She and her cousins used to come to the home every summer and spend her time in Oberlin. She even considered staying in the city for college. But after her great-great aunt died, the house sat empty.

Her relatives are steeped in a history of activism and education. Some went on to work and teach in Washington, D.C., where Hughes grew up. Her relatives continued to fight for the abolition of slavery and civil rights. Hughes herself became the vice chair of surgery at the hospital she works at in New York — becoming the first Black female to do so there.

“It’s hard to describe how my aunt pushed us with ‘You are from a heritage that is important,’ ” Hughes said. “... We really have a proud family. Ever since we were little, they instill it in you, that you can do whatever you want or be whoever you want.”

Hughes grew up with the legend of Wilson Bruce Evans and the rest of the family tree. Born in North Carolina, Evans and his wife, Sarah Jane Leary Evans, arrived in Oberlin as free people in 1854.

Hughes said her aunt ensured that she and her siblings and cousins all knew who they came from. She said she sometimes felt different from others as her ancestors were born free, but also fortunate to have the history she did.

Her entire family, including the women, attended college. Hughes said she was handed down a sense of purpose and pride in who her family was.

When Wilson Bruce and Sarah Jane Evans arrived in Oberlin, they joined a network of people in the city — including the Copelands, Langstons, Learys, Walls and Scotts — as activists committed to the abolition of slavery. In 1858, Evans was among the men arrested by federal authorities for forcibly preventing the return of local freedom seeker John Price.

John Price was a slave who escaped to freedom and found refuge in Oberlin. Slave-catchers led by a U.S. marshal kidnapped him under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and fled to Wellington to await a train.

They hoped to return Price to his former owner in Kentucky, but on Sept. 13, 1858, residents of Oberlin — including Wilson Bruce Evans — marched south to free him by force.

A filmmaking group is working on making a documentary about the historical moment.

In 1859, Sarah Jane Evans’ brother and Wilson Bruce Evans’ nephew joined John Brown’s raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown initiated the effort to have a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Hughes said she had relatives who died there, and two of her brothers are named after them.

Hughes’ aunt and granddaughter of Wilson Bruce Evans, Dorothy Inborden Miller, lived at the house for years. Hughes said her aunt would have wanted to see the house restored. The property was divided among the cousins and Hughes’ mother.

Descendants work to restore historical Oberlin home

she's continuing the legacy

Spotlight on Our SBELIH General and Acute Care Surgery Specialist Dr. Melany C. Hughes

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@boy @DrBanneker


The late C. Melvin Patrick was part of NYC mover and shaker set, and part of the Martha's Vineyard circle. His daughter Anne Barbara Patrick just passed a few weeks ago.

For years Patrick put together and published Delegate Magazine annually. It covered every Black social, civic, professional convention in America. A few of the organizations were previously discussed in this thread, but many that I'd never heard of.



The issue released the year he passed away is below. Even though I omitted the advertisements, it's still a long file.

some of the highlights
page 17 future VA governor L. Douglas Wilder at a Hellians of DC event
42 Cosby Show cast honored at an event
49 Reginald F. Lewis
60 FIRST commencement of Morehouse School of Medicine
142 Oak Bluff's tennis club
194 John H. Johnson
215 Vernon Jordan's first wife

 

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For years Patrick put together and published Delegate Magazine annually. It covered every Black social, civic, professional convention in America. A few of the organizations were previously discussed in this thread, but many that I'd never heard of.

This is meaty.
Never seen anything like this.
Most organizations put together their own year books.
But I've never seen a publication that covered all black organizations.
It's glorious! Looking at the pictures, it seems like a lifetime ago.
It's indicative of how unified the black professional class was at one point.
Too bad his daughters didn't continue with the publication after he passed.

The segment on Harlem was eye opening. Hadn't realized that there was such a big divide between Black Americans and West Indians.
"Monkey Chasers?" Really?

Gonna digest the rest later on.

 

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picture with Langston Hughes and Horace Cayton jr

I'm tired of repping you bro.

Did not know this. I have a copy of Black Metropolis.
It's the standard on life in black Chicago during the Great Migration years.

 

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This is meaty.
Never seen anything like this.
Most organizations put together their own year books.
But I've never seen a publication that covered all black organizations.
It's glorious! Looking at the pictures, it seems like a lifetime ago.
It's indicative of how unified the black professional class was at one point.
Too bad his daughters didn't continue with the publication after he passed.

The segment on Harlem was eye opening. Hadn't realized that there was such a big divide between Black Americans and West Indians.
"Monkey Chasers?" Really?

Gonna digest the rest later on.

I made a bet to myself that you and other members from those circles would see names or photos of relatives in the magazine.
The metro NYC area chapters of those organizations were very active in that era, so the people were familiar to me.

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I mentioned hearing the m.c. slur before here
https://www.thecoli.com/posts/31013480/

I won't derail this thread, but I posted some of the earliest American studies/articles about Black immigrants in the Root section. They were written by a journalist(1933), and a sociologist (1938),and that slur shows up in both pieces.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/west-indian-on-the-campus-1933.828338/

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/negro-immigration-to-the-united-states-1938.828591/



Patrick was born in 1914, so he experienced the old Harlem as he said...the good and the bad. Black immigrants, and English speaking Islanders in particular have been in this metro area since the early 1900s.
Everybody whose family has been here more than two generations has relatives from different Black ethnic groups.
I was genuinely shocked the past 2 years to hear any members from the NYC metro area buying into elements of diaspora wars propaganda. But had to remind myself that the rules are different in TLR Land.

 

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I made a bet to myself that you and other members from those circles would see names or photos of relatives in the magazine.
The metro NYC area chapters of those organizations were very active in that era, so the people were familiar to me.

I recognized many names but nah didn't see any family.

I'm quite amazed at the number of social, civic, and professional organisations that were around at one point.

Although Patrick's journal covered many national organizations, many of those spotlighted were still very regional to the northeast or local to the NYC metro.

Didn't see mentioned organizations like the Drifters, the Northeasterners, the Moles, the Contempos, the Carousels, the Frogs, the Druids, the Royal Coterie of Snakes, the Assembly. Man it's a lot and every city got their own organizations. It would be interesting if someone was tracking all these organisations and their philanthropic endeavors. I've mentioned to you before that website BlackGivesBack but it's now defunct.

I mentioned hearing the m.c. slur before here
https://www.thecoli.com/posts/31013480/

I won't derail this thread, but I posted some of the earliest American studies/articles about Black immigrants in the Root section. They were written by a journalist(1933), and a sociologist (1938),and that slur shows up in both pieces.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/west-indian-on-the-campus-1933.828338/

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/negro-immigration-to-the-united-states-1938.828591/



Patrick was born in 1914, so he experienced the old Harlem as he said...the good and the bad. Black immigrants, and English speaking Islanders in particular have been in this metro area since the early 1900s.
Everybody whose family has been here more than two generations has relatives from different Black ethnic groups.
I was genuinely shocked the past 2 years to hear any members from the NYC metro area buying into elements of diaspora wars propaganda. But had to remind myself that the rules are different in TLR Land.

I think I discussed before that hearing these things about WIs always surprised me because those that I grew up in proximity with in Chicago were light, bourgeois, and integrated into our circles. There may have been distinctions but they were soft.

 

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My cousin just dropped a photo on IG of him with Maynard Jackson III, of whom was one of his mentees. Not going to post that photo but he linked to Maynard III account. Didn't realize he produced a movie on the life of his father.

 

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I made a bet to myself that you and other members from those circles would see names or photos of relatives in the magazine.

I recognized many names but nah didn't see any family.

I'm quite amazed at the number of social, civic, and professional organisations that were around at one point.

Although Patrick's journal covered many national organizations, many of those spotlighted were still very regional to the northeast or local to the NYC metro.

Didn't see mentioned organizations like the Drifters, the Northeasterners, the Moles, the Contempos, the Carousels, the Frogs, the Druids, the Royal Coterie of Snakes, the Assembly. Man it's a lot and every city got their own organizations.

I'm amazed by the number of national organizations listed in the convention section, and that you just listed several more that I'd never heard of, The Delegate Magazine definitely has a Northeast Corridor slant. The financial capitol of NYC, and the political capitol of DC.
Speaking of DC, you've always pointed out how central that place was to the history of this segment of Black people. I thought that by covering DC and DMV area groups, that by extension the magazine covered groups and affiliations whose members spanned the country.

You mentioned earlier
whether somebody carried the baton of what the magazine was doing. Earl Graves had a special pullout segment of Black Enterprise magazine that showcased when and where the Black national and regional professional associations were holding their conventions. Think it was in the Dec./Jan. issue.

When Mr. Graves passed away recently, we posted an article about the late Mr. John H. Johnson. He openly admitted to throwing shade and trying to sabotage Black Enterprise magazine to advertisers, and that Graves never responded in kind or badmouthed him. Johnson conceded that he had great admiration for how Graves carried himself and that they eventually spoke and made peace.
They are standing together in a group photo in this magazine,( during the height of the "feud") and Earl Graves' face says everything.

(will respond to the rest of the post later)

 

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Planned to post this entry last year. Unfortunately he passed away a few days ago.. Obit is below

Entrepreneur, Charleston native Charles 'Chuck' James III dead at 62

July 29, 1958 - January 7, 2021 On Thursday, January 7, 2021, Charles H. James III, an entrepreneur, husband, and father of three children, passed away at the age of 62 in his home in Atlanta after a brief illness.Charles, known as Chuck to his friends and family, was born on July 29, 1958 in Charleston, WV to Charles H. James II and Lucia Bacote James. A 5th generation West Virginian, he received his BA from Morehouse College in 1981 and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1985. After his MBA, he returned to West Virginia to work with his father at CH James & Co., a wholesale foods distribution company established in 1883, recognized as one of the oldest African-American owned companies in the United States.As a 4th generation entrepreneur, he worked his way up in the company to become the Chairman & CEO, expanding it from a local wholesale food distributor to a leading international supplier to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense and the Veterans Administration. Later Chuck purchased the controlling interest in North American Produce Co. based in the City of Industry, CA, supplying produce to McDonald's restaurants throughout the western United States and Asia. During this time he and his family resided in Pasadena CA for ten years. In 2004, in partnership with Goldman Sachs, he acquired a total of 48 Burger Kings throughout Chicago, IL and Birmingham, AL.Among awards, C.H. James & Co. was named "Company of the Year" by Black Enterprise magazine (1992) and Chuck was inducted into the West Virginia Business Hall of Fame (2007). Other honors include the Morehouse College Candle in the Dark Award, the Dow Jones Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence and the Office of the Governor's Distinguished West Virginian Award. He served on several boards including Morehouse College, Wintrust Financial Corporation, the Children's Hospital in Chicago, the Steppenwolf Theatre and the Graduate Board at the Wharton School. Chuck was a member of the Sigma Pi Phi and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternities. He also enjoyed membership at The Jonathan Club, The California Club and Annandale Golf Club.

 

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

Spoiler

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)




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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)

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^^her brother below

Wilson Bruce Evans (1866-1918)

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Anna Jane Evans would latter marry another great:

Daniel Alexander Payne Murray

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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

..other Daniel P Murray branches:


his cousin was the bibliophile William Bolivar of Philly's old black elite. He paved the way for people like Daniel Murray, John Edward Bruce Carter G Woodson and Arturo Schomburg

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His mother was from an old black elite family: The LeCounts, whom the most known member to mainstream history was Caroline Lecount






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her husband was Octavius Catto

“Octavius Catto was a true American hero. Like many unheralded black American heroes, he should be revered and recognized. Their lives and accomplishments should be part of the curriculum of our schools, not just during the shortest month of the year,” Mayor Kenney told the crowd gathered for the unveiling. Catto spent a relatively short life fighting for equal rights for African Americans. The Civil War veteran was known for his contributions to education, sports, and civil rights.




Catto was a freeman born in South Carolina, but his family moved to Philadelphia when he was a child. He was the valedictorian at Cheyney University (the nation’s first HBCU that was then called the Institute for Colored Youth) in 1858 and began working there as an English and math teacher. During the Civil War, he served in the Pennsylvania National Guard and recruited more Black soldiers for the Union Army. A talented athlete, he “establish[ed] Philadelphia as a major hub of the Negro Leagues” and fought to integrate the sport in the late nineteenth century. America still hasn’t caught up to Catto’s vision of universal equality, which included voting rights for African Americans. It was the latter vision that cost Catto his life. He was shot dead by “Irish-American ward bosses” on the day he saw the fruits of his activism– the first Election Day after the ratification of the 15th Amendment allowed Black men to vote. He was only 32 years old.

 

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Incredible thread man.
I took a while away from The Coli so I missed out on many of these.

That’s highly disrespectful to the actual suffering and humiliation of the black women (and to a lesser extent some black men) who were fetishized and raped at the beginning of these lineages. Benefitting from white zaddy during the days of slavery, sharecropping, and Jim Crow breh, really

I'm disappointed this thead was muddied up by these fukking idiots.
Where's the moderation ?
It should be more heavy handed towards this kind of behavior in a "Serious" thread.

Good point. Most white people today can't really conceptualize the idea of "old money" black people. They know hood rich nikkas like Jay and Bron, but the true bourgeoisie is invisible to them for the most part especially outside the coast.

Low key the same can be said for old money in general.
There are vastly wealthy people that we do not know about because the articles
are being written about pop stars and movie stars.

Not titans of industry or owners of vast, vast resources.
Those people's families made their fortunes in the past two hundred years or so
or they're descendants of royalty or heads of state.

Their money isn't conceived of by the average cat who can barely handle his own personal finance.


And @boy @IllmaticDelta @Get These Nets for dropping so much knowledge.
Much love brehs.

 

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if theres no current modern descendants then not much has really changed if the linages die off

 

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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 bet Greg Carr knows. He stays dropping info on the history of black education on his Saturday shows with Karen Hunter.

 

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If anyone has been watching the Black Church series on PBS, the opening scene of the first episode was shot at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard. Union Chapel is one of the "summer churches" of the old black elite. Literally, the church that I grew up in is dead during the summer months because everybody is away in Oak Bluffs.

The minister who is preaching is Rev. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. It's one of Chicago's "society" churches. Rev. Moss is the successor of Rev. Jeremiah Wright who founded the church and was the church home of Oprah Winfrey and the Obama's before they went to Washington. If anyone remembers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright was the pastor the Obama's threw under the bus after he came under fire after it was was revealed that he said "God Damn America" in one of his sermons.

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