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Inside the Bygone World of Wilmington's Black Elite | American Experience | PBS

Beautiful, intimate photographs of a society in the crosshairs of white supremacy.

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Oct 30, 2024
Not all images of resistance contain protest signs. In fact, symbols of defiance can be remarkably quiet, as with a set of photographs from 1890s Wilmington, North Carolina. In lace and gabardine, cravats and crinolines, African Americans in the state’s then-largest city used photos to record their success within a society still circumscribed by white supremacy.


It was an instinct well-articulated by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the most photographed man of the 19th century. “Pictures come not with slavery and oppression and destitution,” Douglass wrote about the role of photography in Black life, “but with liberty, fair play, leisure, and refinement. These conditions are now possible to colored American citizens.”


In the battle against racist stereotypes, photographs were a weapon by which Black Wilmingtonians cultivated an alternative portrayal. The images couldn’t forestall a massacre and governmental overthrow perpetrated by white supremacists—but the photos nonetheless document a moment in which African Americans’ economic and social standing in the city was unmistakable.

Images from two families in particular tell the tale of a proud, Black Wilmington. The Sadgwar family were prominent builders in the city; the Manlys published Wilmington’s only Black-owned and -edited newspaper. Other notable Black North Carolinians also had portraits taken, leaving behind a record of their cultural and civic achievement. In these photographs, free from external derogatory perspectives, they could depict themselves as they wanted to be seen.


“Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers,” said Douglass, “and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements. They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction.”

To learn more about Black Wilmington—and the forces that conspired to destroy it—watch American Coup: Wilmington 1898.

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Inside the Bygone World of Wilmington's Black Elite | American Experience | PBS

Beautiful, intimate photographs of a society in the crosshairs of white supremacy.

www.pbs.org

Oct 30, 2024
Not all images of resistance contain protest signs. In fact, symbols of defiance can be remarkably quiet, as with a set of photographs from 1890s Wilmington, North Carolina. In lace and gabardine, cravats and crinolines, African Americans in the state’s then-largest city used photos to record their success within a society still circumscribed by white supremacy.


It was an instinct well-articulated by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the most photographed man of the 19th century. “Pictures come not with slavery and oppression and destitution,” Douglass wrote about the role of photography in Black life, “but with liberty, fair play, leisure, and refinement. These conditions are now possible to colored American citizens.”

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In the battle against racist stereotypes, photographs were a weapon by which Black Wilmingtonians cultivated an alternative portrayal. The images couldn’t forestall a massacre and governmental overthrow perpetrated by white supremacists—but the photos nonetheless document a moment in which African Americans’ economic and social standing in the city was unmistakable.

Images from two families in particular tell the tale of a proud, Black Wilmington. The Sadgwar family were prominent builders in the city; the Manlys published Wilmington’s only Black-owned and -edited newspaper. Other notable Black North Carolinians also had portraits taken, leaving behind a record of their cultural and civic achievement. In these photographs, free from external derogatory perspectives, they could depict themselves as they wanted to be seen.


“Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers,” said Douglass, “and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements. They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction.”

To learn more about Black Wilmington—and the forces that conspired to destroy it—watch American Coup: Wilmington 1898.

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American Experience | American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Season 36 | Episode 7

The little-known story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.

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American Experience

American Coup: Wilmington 1898​

Season 36 Episode 7 | 1h 51m 27s | Video has closed captioning. | Video has audio description

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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898. Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government.

Aired: 11/12/24
Expires: 11/12/27
Rating: TV-14

 

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American Experience | American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Season 36 | Episode 7

The little-known story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.

www.pbs.org

American Experience

American Coup: Wilmington 1898​

Season 36 Episode 7 | 1h 51m 27s | Video has closed captioning. | Video has audio description

Add toMy List
Watch Preview
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898. Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government.

Aired: 11/12/24
Expires: 11/12/27
Rating: TV-14

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I was cleaning out a cabinet of files and came upon an old Goodman Theatre playbill that featured actress Lizzy Cooper Davis. I know Lizzy as an acquaintance but she is really close to the family of my best friend. Lizzy, from what I gathered, is brilliant - extremely educated, and very gracious. And I knew she came from a talented family but not exactly to what extent. From what I've found out, I may have to revise the original premise of this thread. Lizzy's family is up there with the Jarrett-Dibble and Mossell Clans already featured, and possibly tops them.

William Boyd Allison Davis

An educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar, William Boyd Allison Davis was considered one of the most promising black scholars of his generation. He became the first African-American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, where he would spend the balance of his academic life. Among his students during his tenure at the University of Chicago were anthropologist St. Clair Drake and sociologist Nathan Hare. Davis, who has been honored with a commemorative postage stamp by the United States Postal Service, is best remembered for his pioneering anthropology research on southern race and class during the 1930s, his research on intelligence quotient in the 1940s and 50’s, and his support of “compensatory education” that contributed to the intellectual genesis of the federal program Head Start.

• 1942 Social Anthropology Ph.D.; University of Chicago
• 1925 BA English; Harvard University
• Anthropology; London School of Economics
• 1924 BA summa cum laude English; William College
• Dissertation: The Relation between Color Caste and Economic Stratification in Two Black Plantation Counties.
• Areas of research interest: acculturation, race and social class, child development, personality and intelligence
• Awarded Julian Rosenwald Fellowships in Anthropology 1932, 1939, 1940.
• Professor of Anthropology, Head of the Division of Social Studies, Dillard University 1935-1940.
• Professor in the Department of Education, University of Chicago 1942 (first Black professor); Full Professor in 1948; John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Education, 1970.
• First educator to become a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Selected Publications: Children of Bondage: The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South (1940, co-authored with John Dollard), Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class (1941, co-authored with Burleigh and Mary Gardner), Intelligence and Cultural Differences: A Study of Cultural Learning and Problem-solving (1951, co-authored with Kenneth Eells, Robert Havighurst, Virgil Herrick, and Ralph Tyler)

Alice Elizabeth Stubbs Davis

Not much is documented on Elizabeth Stubbs Davis except some things in relation to her husband. However, it is known that she was very exceptional, and along with her husband was one of the first black anthropologist in the nation. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and possibly both Harvard and the University of London and after marrying Allison Davis, assisted him on much of his research.

I will revisit Elizabeth as she connects the Davises to another black dynasty.

Video is taken from Ava Duvernay's Origin movie. There was a thread in TLR posted about the movie characterizing it as an interracial love story. Doesn't seem to be the case at all after reading reviews.

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Video is taken from Ava Duvernay's Origin movie. There was a thread in TLR posted about the movie characterizing it as an interracial love story. Doesn't seem to be the case at all after reading reviews.

Haven't seen it, but from the trailer it appears to be ir.

Origin (2023) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama, History

2h 21m | 12A

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Origin (2023) - Parents guide - IMDb

Origin (2023) - Parents guide and Certifications from around the world.

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Video is taken from Ava Duvernay's Origin movie. There was a thread in TLR posted about the movie characterizing it as an interracial love story. Doesn't seem to be the case at all after reading reviews.

Oh wow she comes from great stock. Yes they were referenced in the film. I think I bumped the “Origins” film thread last week and read about this couple. Amazing!

 

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@Gloxina Looks like it's on Hulu, gonna check it out today.

We've crossed a threshold in society where lies and falsehoods are truth. In addition to low levels of education - which produces little to no comprehension and critical thinking skills, it's really getting to the point where you can't trust or, now in my case, even bother with other people's reviews or assessments. The Origin movie thread is a GREAT disappointment. If this movie is as good as it appears, it's a shame the posters in this forum allowed propaganda to color their opinions without having seen it. It's doing a great disservice to our black filmmakers and their ability to tell our stories. Not too many people outside of Chicago know about Allison Davis Sr. Hell, not even many of the "new" elite blacks in Chicago know his story - many of whom I've heard characterize his son - Allison Jr., as this "white man who shows up to all the black events". His storyline alone is enough for me to see the movie.

I tried to rep you but can't, will get you later.

 

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@Gloxina Looks like it's on Hulu, gonna check it out today.

We've crossed a threshold in society where lies and falsehoods are truth. In addition to low levels of education - which produces little to no comprehension and critical thinking skills, it's really getting to the point where you can't trust or, now in my case, even bother with other people's reviews or assessments. The Origin movie thread is a GREAT disappointment. If this movie is as good as it appears, it's a shame the posters in this forum allowed propaganda to color their opinions without having seen it. It's doing a great disservice to our black filmmakers and their ability to tell our stories. Not too many people outside of Chicago know about Allison Davis Sr. Hell, not even many of the "new" elite blacks in Chicago know his story - many of whom I've heard characterize his son - Allison Jr., as this "white man who shows up to all the black events". His storyline alone is enough for me to see the movie.

I tried to rep you but can't, will get you later.

That thread is a major disappointment! You’re right.



Thanks for reminding me that this film is on Hulu!

 

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Been wanting to do this post for awhile to address a long standing rumor that the founders of Sears and Roebuck were black. It was trending on social media a few months back and it's interesting to see how the rumor has taken a life of its own.

No one seems to know where the rumor started.

However, I do.

The rumor surrounded founder Alvah Roebuck.

As catalogs for Sears and Montgomery Ward made their way into more and more homes, local storekeepers began circulating rumors that the companies were run by black men.

"The logic, of course, was that these fellows could not afford to show their faces as retailers," Gordon Lee Weil wrote in his 1977 history of the company, "Sears, Roebuck, U.S.A.: The Great American Catalog Store and How it Grew."

By the turn of the century, some merchants were even encouraging people to bring in their catalogs for Saturday night bonfires, and offering bounties of up to $50 for people who collected the most "Wish Books," historians Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen wrote in "Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness." In response, Sears published photos of its founders to prove that they were white, while Ward offered a $100 reward in exchange the name of the person who had started a rumor that he had mixed black and white ancestry.

Where and why did the rumor start?

The rumor started circulating around the black community on the South and West sides of Chicago after it was insinuated that one of its black establishment families was related to the Roebucks.

Apparently, the genesis of this family was due to a rape committed by one of the white Roebucks.

Maudelle Tanner Brown Bousfield

Maudelle Tanner Brown was born June 1, 1885, in St. Louis to Charles Brown, a longtime St. Louis public school teacher and principal. Her mother, Arrena Isabella Tanner, was also an educator, her uncle Benjamin Tanner was a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and her first cousin Henry Tanner was a noted painter.

Midian Othello Bousfield

Physician and businessman Dr. Midian Othello Bousfield was a leader in Chicago’s insurance industry. His diverse career included work in medicine and in the military, advocating for African American health care and for the training of black medical personnel. He was the first black person promoted to the rank of colonel in the Army Medical Corps while commanding the Army’s all-African American hospital, an appointment that was marred by controversy amid criticism that he was contributing to segregationist policies.

Midian and Maudelle Tanner Bousfield had a daughter by the name of Maudelle Brown Bousfield Evans.

Maudelle was married to a man named W. Leonard Evans whose family was at the center of the claims.

Evans, was the son of William L., Sr. and Beatrice Evans. Evans Jr. was raised in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1935. He was president and senior partner of the New York ad agency Evans and Durham, Inc., which specialized in the Negro market. Beginning in 1948, he was an account executive and supervisor for the Chicago advertising agency Arthur Meyerhoff Associates, Inc. He was president of the marketing consult firm, Leonard Evans Associates of Chicago, from 1951-1961. He was an advertising executive with Ebony and later helped co-found the National Negro Network (a radio network) in 1953. He was president of Chicago-based Tuesday Publications, Inc., publishers of Tuesday Magazine, founded in 1961, it is an insert in 22 major newspapers. The magazine focused on the positive contributions of African Americans. Evans retired in the 1970s and lived the remainder of his life in Arizona.​

His family history was spotlighted in a book a white sociologist wrote about established black families on the South Side of Chicago in the 70's.

Here are two snippets from that book.

South and West side community members would attest to seeing members of Leonard's very fair white passing family, who lived in their all black segregated neighborhoods, being visited by white Roebucks who would show up in limos.

This is just one example that was brought up at the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival discussion on the movie Passing.



*discussion starts at 7:45min

It just so happened (not really) that Leonard's niece sings in our church's choir and she confirmed that they are, in fact, Roebucks and even many of their black family members carry the Roebuck name. So I asked her why the air of mystery with respect to her family's entry in the above book and she said her family would never divulge the truth to anyone white.

She said the rumor started about Alvah Roebuck because South and West side blacks saw the passable black Roebuck members in their neighborhoods and speculated whether Alvah himself was passing. But she confessed that he wasn't. He was actually white but was acutely aware of his black relatives in the city which contributed to the Sears & Roebuck outreach in the black community.

So there you have it.

Leonard and Maudelle were the first blacks to move into Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood in the 60's and Leonard's niece claimed that the white Roebucks helped facilitate the purchase of their grand duplex condo in Chicago's Hancock Building.

 

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I had to post this other quote by Leonard in the book.

"We were the Uncle Tom's ......light-skinned but anti-white."

 

[Gloxina]

Been wanting to do this post for awhile to address a long standing rumor that the founders of Sears and Roebuck were black. It was trending on social media a few months back and it's interesting to see how the rumor has taken a life of its own.

No one seems to know where the rumor started.

However, I do.

The rumor surrounded founder Alvah Roebuck.

Where and why did the rumor start?

The rumor started circulating around the black community on the South and West sides of Chicago after it was insinuated that one of its black establishment families was related to the Roebucks.

Apparently, the genesis of this family was due to a rape committed by one of the white Roebucks.





Midian and Maudelle Tanner Bousfield had a daughter by the name of Maudelle Brown Bousfield Evans.

Maudelle was married to a man named W. Leonard Evans whose family was at the center of the claims.

His family history was spotlighted in a book a white sociologist wrote about established black families on the South Side of Chicago in the 70's.

Here are two snippets from that book.

South and West side community members would attest to seeing members of Leonard's very fair white passing family, who lived in their all black segregated neighborhoods, being visited by white Roebucks who would show up in limos.

This is just one example that was brought up at the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival discussion on the movie Passing.



*discussion starts at 7:45min

It just so happened (not really) that Leonard's niece sings in our church's choir and she confirmed that they are, in fact, Roebucks and even many of their black family members carry the Roebuck name. So I asked her why the air of mystery with respect to her family's entry in the above book and she said her family would never divulge the truth to anyone white.

She said the rumor started about Alvah Roebuck because South and West side blacks saw the passable black Roebuck members in their neighborhoods and speculated whether Alvah himself was passing. But she confessed that he wasn't. He was actually white but was acutely aware of his black relatives in the city which contributed to the Sears & Roebuck outreach in the black community.

So there you have it.

Leonard and Maudelle were the first blacks to move into Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood in the 60's and Leonard's niece claimed that the white Roebucks helped facilitate the purchase of their grand duplex condo in Chicago's Hancock Building.

Interesting— and Rebecca Hall, didn’t know!
Probably could’ve guessed. Almost makes me think about Mariah Carey.