America's Most Powerful Black Families

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Robert John Palmer - 2nd Great Grandfather of Dave Chapelle

Robert J. Palmer's daughter was Rosina C. Palmer:

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Rosina was married to William David Chappelle, Sr.

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W.D. and Rosina Chappelle's son - William David Chapelle, Jr.:

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W. D. Chappelle Jr.'s nephew - William David Chappelle III (Dave Chapelle's father):




W.D. Chappelle III married Yvonne Seon (Dave Chappelle's Mother):

found a picture of the Robert Palmer w/ wife and kids

3rd and 4th generations

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this one (bottom right) specifically:


Harry Pelot McDonald (1923–2012)

Harry Pelot McDonald was a doctor, medical missionary, civil rights activist, and humanitarian in the second half of the twentieth century. A leader of the Fort Smith (Sebastian County) branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), McDonald advocated for the African-American community by fighting for desegregation and increased employment opportunities.

Harry Pelot McDonald was born on September 1, 1923, in Sumter, South Carolina. He was the youngest son of Adelaide Palmer McDonald and Samuel James McDonald. Samuel McDonald worked for the railway postal service and taught at Claflin University, in addition to serving as president of the Sumter NAACP. Adelaide McDonald was a homemaker and music teacher. Harry grew up in Sumter and was educated in the local schools. He graduated as the valedictorian from Sumter’s Lincoln High School before going on to study at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he earned a BS with honors. He then entered medical school and, at the age of twenty-two, earned his MD from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Following his graduation, he interned at Harlem Hospital in New York City and then did his residency in Kansas City Hospital.

Upon the completion of his residency in 1949, McDonald established a private general practice in Fort Smith. McDonald was forced to interrupt his practice a few years later when he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force not long after the end of the Korean War. With the rank of captain, he served in Ashiya, Fukuoka, Japan from 1954 to 1956. Upon his discharge from the air force, he returned to the United States. In 1956, he married Margaret Bowling, a college professor from Columbia, South Carolina. The couple settled in Fort Smith, and there they raised four children before divorcing in 1970. In 1976, McDonald married Ruby Bultman, a school teacher from Sumter.

Over the years, McDonald became a pillar of the Fort Smith community. He served in numerous capacities with the Mallalieu United Methodist Church, and following his father’s example, was president of the local NAACP for more than a decade. In that role, he led the effort to integrate the town’s school system, collaborating with an array of state and local officials. Working with fellow activist Daisy Bates and respected civil rights attorneys Wiley A. Branton Sr. and George Howard Jr., McDonald helped lay the groundwork for the campaign that culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Cooper v. Aaron. McDonald personally integrated parks, skating rinks, and movie theaters, and he also conducted sit-ins at local restaurants, once leading to a white patron holding him at gunpoint. McDonald also supported other protestors, helping secure legal aid for those who needed it.

In addition, McDonald helped secure employment for the area’s young people while also providing school books and creating a local Head Start program. McDonald was a kind of one-man social service agency, with his efforts also extending to his own professions as he helped desegregate the nurse training program at the local Sparks Hospital, opening the way for black women to become registered nurses. McDonald worked with numerous Arkansas governors, formally and informally, beginning with Winthrop Rockefeller, in his effort to create jobs and secure better opportunities for the region’s black residents.

As a doctor, McDonald served on the staff at St. Edwards, Sparks, and Crawford County hospitals. He was a member of the Sebastian County and Arkansas State Medical Associations, as well as the American Medical and National Medical Associations. He also belonged to the Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association. In addition, McDonald was a member of the Fort Smith Progressive Men’s Club and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

In 1978, Governor David Pryor appointed McDonald to the Arkansas State Board of Education, and he was reappointed by Governor Bill Clinton in 1987. Clinton also named him to the Criminal Detention Facilities Review Committee in the Twelfth Judicial District in 1984. When McDonald retired from his medical practice in 1990, Governor Clinton was the keynote speaker at the retirement celebration.

During retirement, McDonald became a medical missionary. Under the auspices of the Christian Mission of Pignon, Haiti, he provided free health care in the Hospital Bienfaisance.

In 2006, Harry and Ruby McDonald moved to Richland, Washington. There, he was cared for by his youngest daughter, Maria, and her husband, Edward McNamar. McDonald died in Washington on April 15, 2012. He is buried in Walker Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina.

Encyclopedia of Arkansas

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of the first black self-made millionaires, used an ingenious trick to build her fortune

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Virginia Craft below

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The Decostas that she/her family are tied to via the Crafts

are a very influential Afram family from South Carolina but are now spread out all over the South (Carolinas, Memphis, Atlanta, Virginia and Baltimore) and North (NYC and Boston). Too mnay Decostas to mention but I'll drop a few

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Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. (1923-2008)

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Frank Augustus DeCosta 1910- 1972

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Benjamin R. DeCosta

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MIRIAM DECOSTA-WILLIS (1934-2021)

These Crafts and Decostas were related/connected to

William Demosthenes Crum, alternatively known as William Demos Crum, (February 9, 1859 – December 7, 1912)

alternatively known as William Demos Crum, (February 9, 1859 – December 7, 1912) was an African American physician and diplomat.



Crum was born on February 9, 1859, in Charleston, South Carolina.[1][2][3] He was born a free man of color, the youngest of seven children, between Darius Crum, a German American, and Charlotte C. Crum a free woman of color. He grew up on his father's plantation which used forty-three slaves prior to the end of the Civil War.[4] He would graduate valedictorian of his class from the Avery Normal Institute in 1875.[5][6] He would receive a medical degree from Howard University in 1881 before returning to Charleston and working at the McClennan Hospital and Training School for Nurses. He would go on to marry Ellen Crum, the daughter of fugitive slave abolitionists William and Ellen Craft, who would later be a founder of the National Federation of Afro-American Women.[7][8][9][10] His career as a physician would also take off, noted for his work in the field of diagnostics and his studying of tuberculosis.[5]

As he worked in the hospital, Crum would become involved with politics, even serving as the chairman of the county Republican Party for more than two decades.[11] He would make ties and friendships with several prominent African Americans such as Whitefield Mckinlay, Harry C. Smith, T. Thomas Fortune, and most notably Booker T. Washington.[7][8][12] During this time he would, not only gain substantial wealth but, also serve as a delegate to every Republican National Conference from 1884 to 1904.[13] Some tragedy did however befall his wife's family, as her parents suffered financial ruin in 1890 and were forced to move to Charleston to live with their daughter; her mother and father would live there until they died in 1897 and 1900, respectively.[9][10][14] He would also make an attempt to run for postmaster of the city in 1892, but ultimately fail.[15][16]

In December 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Crum, on McKinlay's recommendation, as collector of customs for the port of Charleston to symbolize 'a door of hope' for southern African Americans.[15][17][18] Despite heavy local opposition, Crum would was appointed in 1903, the first African American to hold the position, and would hold it until 1909.[6][11][19] The heavy opposition he faced had catapulted him onto the national stage. Later on, in exchange for vacating the office, which President Taft believed was a political liability, Crum was by offered the President to serve as the minister to Liberia.[8][20]

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They have descendants in England

A clipping announced the death from “Africa fever” of Dr. Crum, which stated his wife Ellen Craft Crum had been in London visiting friends but had returned to Charleston in time to be with her husband before he died. There was a diary of the 1980 visit to Ockham, and photographs of a branch of the Crafts in England. When I called Mrs. DeCosta (the donor of the papers), she advised the English family descended from William, Jr., who had returned to England. She had visited his descendants in 1980, and is still in contact with these “cousins.”

Craft and Crum Family Papers Link Charleston and England | Not Just in February

Here they are below

The Crafts’ great great grandchildren outside the house in Hammersmith, west London. Photograph: Justin Thomas/English Heritage

London home of couple who escaped slavery in US gets blue plaque

Christopher Clark (left), great-great-grandson of escaped American slaves William and Ellen Craft, unveiled a sign in memory of his ancestors in Ockham alongside local historian Garry Walton

Christopher Clark (centre) and other descendants of escaped American slaves William and Ellen Craft


Ockham pays tribute to slaves who found refuge in Surrey village

 

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The Graves Family (part 1)

Butch Graves speaking about Black owned media and their dealings with Fortune 500 companies
Part 1

Spoiler: Part 2

(Mrs Washington-Lockette) in this era were/are speaking from a unique vantage point. Their education and experiences gives them an unfiltered view of how society and its systems are constructed, from the top. Everybody feels the effects of racism, but very few see how and where it's embedded into the systems.
Having seen how things truly operate, the reactions are the things you pointed out. And are reflected in multiple stories in the thread.

(Desiree Rogers)
It illustrates why white people and corporate interests resent the conscious element of the Black elite, and tries to keep them at arm's length. Easier to deal with a person who doesn't care about the empowerment of Black people and wants them to become dependent on those interests.
Neither Desiree , nor her husband John Rogers are here for the photo-op and to just grin while being handed an oversized check.

 

[get these nets]

The Graves family, part 2

November 11, 1990,

Caroline Veronica Clarke, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Clarke of the Bronx, was married yesterday to John Clifford Graves, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl G. Graves of Scarsdale, N.Y. The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. and the Right Rev. Orris G. Walker Jr., the Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Long Island, officiated at the Riverside Church in New York.

Mrs. Graves, 25 years old, is a reporter for The American Lawyer Magazine in New York. She graduated from Smith College and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her father is a chemistry professor at the City University of New York. Her mother, Vera Clarke, is a junior high school teacher in the Bronx.

The bridegroom, 27, is an associate in the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. He graduated from Brown University and received a law degree from Yale University. His mother, Barbara E. Graves, is the vice president and general manager of Earl G. Graves Ltd., the holding company that owns Black Enterprise Magazine in New York. His father, the magazine's founder and publisher, is the chairman and chief executive of Pepsi-Cola of Washington, a distribution franchise

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The Story Of Caroline Clarke, Nat King Cole’s Long Lost Granddaughter

At 37 years old, Caroline Clarke’s life felt complete. She was a successful journalist with a loving husband and two beautiful children. Although Caroline was adopted as a baby, she had never felt much curiosity about her biological parents. So when recurring joint pain prompted her to research her genetic background in 2002, her interest was purely for health reasons.

But Caroline was shocked to learn that day that her biological mother was non-other than Carole “Cookie” Cole, the oldest daughter of the legendary singer Nat King Cole. Not only that, she came to the realization that one of her close friends from her college years, Timolin Cole, was actually her aunt.


Caroline Clarke’s Adoption
On Christmas day in 1964, Caroline was born into Hollywood royalty but her identity was kept as a shameful secret. Caroline’s mother Cookie had become pregnant out of wedlock. By that time Nat King Cole had established himself as one of the most recognizable voices in America and Cookie’s mother was fiercely protective of the family’s reputation. Caroline was put up for adoption against Cookie’s wishes.



Caroline was taken in by Robert Clarke, a chemistry professor at the City University of New York, and Vera Clarke, a high school teacher. Although she was an only child, Caroline enjoyed a happy childhood in the Bronx, complete with huge festive dinners with her large extended family. She ended up marrying into a prestigious family that owned Black Enterprise, a media company that encourages African-American entrepreneurship.

Finding Cookie
While studying at Smith College, Caroline had become close friends with a woman at Amherst College. Her name was Timolin Cole. Although Timmie tried not to flaunt her Hollywood connections, Caroline knew that she had a much older sister who acted in movies and television. A sister who had once given up a baby.

In truth, Cookie herself had been adopted by Nat and Maria when Maria’s sister died young. Timmie and her twin sister Casey had grown up rather removed from Cookie’s stardom and their other sister Natalie. When Carole learned the truth while researching her genetic background, she reached out to Timmie for her mother’s phone number.

Caroline Reunites With Her Mother
Caroline finally made the nerve-wracking call to her mother. “My name is Caroline Clarke. I was born on Christmas Day in 1964 in Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and I was adopted by a wonderful family,” she started off. “If none of this means anything to you, or if you don’t want me to continue, I’ll. . .”

“This means everything to me,” Cookie interrupted. The two were reunited at long last. Caroline enjoyed seven years with her mother before Cookie died of cancer in 2009.

 

[Neuromancer]

Is NBA Young boy or Pooh shytey's family’s listed here @Dorian Gray

 

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Is NBA Young boy or Pooh shytey's family’s listed here @Dorian Gray

yep, they’re listed on page 92.

 

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yep, they’re listed on page 92.

 

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The Hope Family Part 1:

John Hope

John Hope was an important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. In 1906 he became the first Black president of Morehouse College—the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr.—in Atlanta. Twenty-three years later, in 1929, Hope went on to become the first African American president of Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University).

John Hope’s early life contributes much to an understanding not only of racial identity but also of class, color, and caste among African Americans, especially in the South. Born of a biracial union in Augusta on June 2, 1868, he belonged to a small Black elite whose history predated the end of slavery. His father, Scottish-born James Hope, immigrated to New York City early in the nineteenth century and eventually moved to Augusta, where he became a prominent businessman. His mother, Mary Frances Butts, was a free African American woman born in Hancock County. Although Georgia law prohibited interracial marriages, Hope’s parents lived openly as husband and wife until his father’s death in 1876.

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John married Lugenia Burns Hope.

Lugenia Burns Hope, née Lugenia D. Burns, (born Feb. 19, 1871, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Aug. 14, 1947, Nashville, Tenn.), American social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Ga., and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.

First in Nashville, Tenn., and then, for more than 30 years in Atlanta, Lugenia Hope organized community services and worked for civil rights. Soon after arriving in Atlanta, Hope worked with a group that eventually evolved into the Neighborhood Union, the first female-run, social welfare agency for African-Americans in Atlanta. From 1908 to 1935, as head of its Board of Managers, she oversaw the provision of medical, recreational, employment, and educational services to Atlanta’s black neighbourhoods.

Hope was also a founding member of the Atlanta Branch of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Through her club work, she became involved in national reform activities and particularly in the efforts to challenge racial discrimination within various reform organizations. In 1920 Hope led a challenge to the practices of segregation and white-domination within the national YWCA.

Hope’s style went beyond the traditional racial politics of the period. She sharply criticized the widespread belief that black Americans had to prove their readiness for citizenship. Her leadership resulted in her assuming the office of First Vice President of the Atlanta chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Son 1 - Edward Swain Hope

Edward Swain Hope '26, SM '27 was the son of longtime Morehouse College president John Hope. At MIT, he was a member of the Civil Engineering Society and on November 19, 1925 pledged Alpha Phi Alpha, Sigma Chapter, with MIT classmate William H. Bethel '27.


Seventeen-year-old Edward, then a rising senior in the Morehouse Academy, had, according to his father, “the automobile repairing ‘bee in his bonnet’”...


Like his father, Edward Hope was quiet, independent, and tended to worry about everything. At MIT, he worried about the high cost of tuition, his inability to relax in examinations, and his fear of not graduating on time. Hope advised him

 

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Hope Family Part 2 -

Son #2 - John Hope II

CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE JOHN HOPE II DIES

John Hope II, 88, who worked for the U.S. Office of Civil Rights for 18 years until his retirement in 1988 as special assistant to the principal deputy, died of cardiac arrest Feb. 5 at his home in Washington. In addition to his career in government, Mr. Hope had been president of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials, which is now known as the National Association of Human Rights Workers.

A native of Atlanta, he graduated from Morehouse College and received a master's degree in economics from Brown University. He did further graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago.

He served on the faculties of Morehouse College, Spelman College and Atlanta University, where he taught courses in economics, labor and personnel administration and consumer problems. He also served as a consultant on interracial relations. He came to Washington in 1961 to serve as assistant executive director of President John F. Kennedy's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. He later became a regional director with the Equal Educational Opportunities Program at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

He joined the Office of Civil Rights in 1970 as director of program planning and development. Subsequent assignments included deputy special assistant to the secretary for civil rights and acting director of the Office of Governmental Relations.

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John Hope II’s Son - Richard Hope

Educator and sociologist Richard Oliver Hope was born on April 1, 1939 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Pearl High School in Nashville, Tennessee and received his B.A. degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1961. Hope went on to receive his M.A. degree and his Ph.D. degree in sociology from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1964 and 1969, respectively.

Hope has served on several public policy boards. He was a member of the board of directors of the National Urban League and Princeton University’s Center on African American Studies. Hope has also been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as an advisory panel member of The Brookings Institution.

Hope published numerous articles and books, including Racial Strife in the United States Military: Toward the Elimination of Discrimination, African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience: Implications for Policy, and Educating a New Majority: Transforming America's Educational System for Diversity. He has been the recipient for many awards for his work as well. Hope is the recipient of the Mellon-Mays Achievement Award for Leadership, the Gandhi-King-Ikeda International Peace Award, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Leadership in the Advancement of Minorities in International and Diplomatic Service.

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Richard Hope’s daughter - Leah Hope

Leah Hope is an award-winning reporter for ABC 7 News, Chicago's Number One station for news. She focuses on special investigations and other important stories affecting the lives of Chicagoans. She joined ABC 7 in 1997.

Hope's work covering issues in the African American community has been honored on both national and local levels. In 2003, she won two awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for reports on a group of "Lost Boys" attacked by a Chicago gang and changes in the cosmetic industry that reflect the changing face of America. The NABJ Chicago Chapter awarded Hope the 2003 Russ Ewing Excellence in Journalism Award and recognized her again with the 2004 Excellence in Enterprise Journalism Award for a series of reports on affirmative action.

Hope received her B.S. degree in Broadcast Journalism/Political Science from Syracuse University in New York. She is the great-granddaughter of John Hope; the first African-American president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. Hope is married and resides in the Chicago area.

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Grew up seeing Leah Hope as a reporter on Channel 7 News everyday. Prime Leah Hope was the prototype for me.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

@Dorian Gray

the pictures aren't showing

 

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@Dorian Gray

the pictures aren't showing

think it has something to do with this thread.

500 Internal Server Error

tried making that post ten times and kept getting that internal server error. switched to desktop and was able to finally post after splicing the post in half. the pictures were coming through on desktop but something is happening where the images appear to be broken on mobile. i even used a coli smiley at the end of the post and it it looks like it’s broken as well.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

think it has something to do with this thread.

500 Internal Server Error

tried making that post ten times and kept getting that internal server error. switched to desktop and was able to finally post after splicing the post in half. the pictures were coming through on desktop but something is happening where the images appear to be broken on mobile. i even used a coli smiley at the end of the post and it it looks like it’s broken as well.

that happened to me yesterday here Are There Any Black American Religions?


that's why you see the random " .... " at the start lol. I had to leave out a large part of that post because it kept getting an error

 

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that happened to me yesterday here Are There Any Black American Religions?


that's why you see the random " .... " at the start lol. I had to leave out a large part of that post because it kept getting an error

yeah, have no idea what’s going on. i’m technologically illiterate so I thought maybe the server can’t handle large post/files anymore. what do I know?