"Bob and his Fiddle" in old Georgia. Music born in adversity. Once "freed", many of the former slaves and their children had no where to go. These are the houses built mostly during the "Slave Years" --- before the Civil War, and Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" . *************************************** "......On Tuesday, July 30, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crows laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society......" NPR www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059465&am... Okinawa_Soba has a lot original images of the descendants of slaves in America, as well as several showing actual slaves who were "freed" during the America's Civil War. To match these images, he also has a box of 19th Century and early 20th Century images of "Black Africa", showing the tribes, roots, and culture that is now a universe away from the modern day existence of "African Americans". Behind the faces of these few images I'm posting here, are lives and experiences that most White people in America will never understand -- either then, or now. [This caption is the same for all. If you have read this far, no need to do so for all the others with the same picture Title]

Wow. I had no idea what life was like for these workers.

Katsu Naito spent years becoming part of the neighborhood before taking a single picture.

Early 1900s postcard view of the 9th and G Streets NW intersection, facing south. The old Patent Office (National Museum of American Art) is on the left, and the 1906 Union Trust Building (now a Marriott Courtyard Hotel) is seen in the distance at 9th and F Streets. If it looks unusually thin, that's because this is before its 1927 expansion.

Following World War I, South Carolina’s economy collapsed. The post-World-War-I drop in demand for textiles, the subsequent collapse in cotton prices, the…

Zora Neale Hurston Plate Block Of 4 37c Postage Stamps - Sc# 3748 - MNH, OG - DC123 Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. These stamps are generally used as collectables however they are real USPS postage stamps that are accepted by the Postal Service as payment for mail. If you wish to use the stamps as postage the rates on the stamps must equal or exceed the current appropriate postal mailing cost or extra postage must be paid. The stamp or stamp set shown in the picture is a stock photo and is likely not a picture of the exact stamp set you will receive in that it may differ in plate number and/or orientation. However the item you will receive will be similar including having a plate number (if one is present in the photos) and the same number of stamps. Brief History Of USA Stamps The issue and use of adhesive postage stamps in the USA began in 1847 continued during the 19th century primarily for first class mail. Each of the early stamps generally bore the face or bust of an American president or another historically important statesman. However, once the Post Office realized during the 1890s that it could increase revenues by selling stamps as "collectibles," it began issuing commemorative stamps, first in connection with important national expositions, later for the anniversaries of significant American historical events. At this point there are literally thousands of different stamp issues with many if not most commemorating events and people who have impacted our history since the USA has become a country - and before! I am offering many of the most interesting and reasonably priced stamps available. Stamps make great gifts for history buffs or for noting events and/or people that are interesting or important to you or yours!

Were they government propaganda or works of art? Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott documented scenes of extreme poverty and suffering around America - including in the Deep South - following the collapse of Wall St in a bid to generate public support for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal economic and social reform package.

Several hundred people march on South African embassy on Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC on June 26, 1976 protesting the massacre of students in Soweto 10 days previously. The march was sponsored by the June 16 Coalition and began at Malcolm X (Meridian Hill) Park, to denounce “the atrocities of the South African government.” Skipper Bailey, chair of the 26-organization group said, “We want to express with this march our solidarity with the struggle of black people in South Africa and to express our contempt at apartheid and the United States’ continued interaction with the racist government of South Africa.” In a separate action, two firebombs were thrown into the embassy on June 24, but caused only slight damage. The Soweto protests began when the South African government decreed that students to be taught in the Afrikaans language. Police shot to death an estimated 176 children on June 16 when they broke up a protest march by about 10,000 high school and grade school students. The date is a national holiday in South Africa today. For more information and additional photos on African liberation activities in Washington, DC, see flic.kr/s/aHsjDjwNgU Photo by Ray Lustig. Courtesy of the DC Public Library, Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Dorothy Cotton, a community member and pioneer of civil rights, died at Kendal at Ithaca this weekend. She was 88. Cotton was considered one of the most important […]

1939 marked the beginning of the end of the Great Depression in South Carolina. Plummenting prices of cotton and tobacco in 1920 caused the depression to start

These vintage photographs of South Carolina during the Great Depression show just how tough times were.

It is often said, a picture tells a thousand words. Some of these images really paint a vivid picture of the trials, tribulations and celebrations of our Lowcountry past. Some will bring you to levels of emotion both good and bad. Sit back and remember to never forget our past. From Civil Rights to military;

ATLANTA — Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes calmed tensions by singing church hymns, has died. She was 88.

In late 19th and early 20th-century America, a new image of womanhood emerged that began to shape public views and understandings of women’s role in society. With the suffrage and labor movements, the “new woman” emerged. These modern women were attending colleges, rejecting domesticity, asserting themselves politically in public, and becoming a part of the cultural landscape through literature. As the 12th century progresses, the voices of women pushed for more self-discovery and freedom from society’s traditional limitations.

1939 marked the beginning of the end of the Great Depression in South Carolina. Plummenting prices of cotton and tobacco in 1920 caused the depression to start

These vintage photographs of South Carolina during the Great Depression show just how tough times were.

These vintage photographs of South Carolina during the Great Depression show just how tough times were.

These vintage photographs of South Carolina during the Great Depression show just how tough times were.

Photos and history of the Hampton Plantation House located near Mount Pleasant South Carolina

The education programs she led helped teach thousands of African Americans about basic rights of citizenship.

Civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton at a press conference held by Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, 22nd October 1963. (

ITHACA, N.Y. — Dorothy Cotton, a community member and pioneer of civil rights, died at Kendal at Ithaca this weekend. She was 88. Cotton was considered one of the most important […]

My work develops intuitively and incorporates diverse layers, which alternate consecutive, conscious, deliberate, and unpredictable interventions. The material of my painting is obtained primarily by the use and subtle mixture of highly pigmented oil paint and cold wax medium. This medium allows my work to evolve through complex processes of superimposition, using additive and subtractive techniques throughout their creation.

Dorothy Cotton worked side by side with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to empower African-Americans to exercise their civil rights. She died June 10 at her residence in Kendal at Ithaca.

South of Charleston. North of Savannah. Just near Heaven.

Take a look back to the early days of the iconic Lincoln Memorial with this rare photo from 1917, taken during construction. Plus, don't miss the post on the memorial's dedication with Lincoln's son, Robert Todd, in attendance.

This essay considers southern literature in terms of generic forms that are, if not uniquely southern, substantially recognizable as contingent upon southern identifiers: geographic, social, cultural, as well as historical and linguistic contingencies that constitute "the South."

Blog post at Daily Observations from The Civil War : U.S. Capitol under construction, Washington, D.C., south-east view, July, 1863; photo by Andrew J. Russell. Library of Cong[..]

Civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton at a press conference held by Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, 22nd October 1963. (