Eatonville, Florida was incorporated on August 18, 1887 (22 years after black folk were freed by law). What had happened was… Back in the day, the Spanish and the British
Susie was born August 6, 1848 in Liberty County, Georgia, which is 30-something miles from Savannah. She was the eldest of Hagar Ann Reed and Raymond Baker’s 9 children. Susie
Ida B. Wells did the same kinda work I do. She gathered the people’s stories. Except she sought out the heartbreaking but necessary memories. And it breaks my heart that
It’s Tupac’s birthday! Many folk, myself included, don’t know much about Afeni other than her being Tupac’s mom. I knew that she was a Black Panther and that she was
Some Africans self-emancipated after plotting for months and years. some peeped an opportunity and chose right there in the moment to get the tf on. some escaped the auction block, fresh off the
Better known as Sol C. Johnson, he was born four years after slavery ended on November 29, 1869. He moved to Savannah from South Carolina as a child. As a
The leading black newspaper of the segregation era started here in Savannah. Well…kinda. Its founder, Robert Abbott, was raised and schooled here. He was born on November 24, 1870 (five
Virginia Jackson was born on June 3, 1911 to two powerful civil rights leaders: Keiffer Albert Jackson (originally from Mississippi) and Dr. Lillian Carroll Jackson (from Baltimore). Her mother was