Missouri
History Museum, AT&T Foundation Multipurpose
Room
Michele Scott, executive
director of the Mashantucket Pequot Circles
of Care Program, offers this brief history
of the Mashantucket (Western)
Pequot Tribal Nation and examines the interconnection
between Native
American and African American communities.
After the program, two
tribal members, Morningstar Arroyo and Albert
Zamora, will perform
drumming and dance to represent the Mashantucket
Pequot culture.
Juneteenth
is the oldest known celebration of the
ending of slavery. Dating back to 1865,
it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers,
led by Major General Gordon Granger,
landed at Galveston, Texas with news
that the war had ended and that all
slaves were now free. Note that this
was two and a half years after President
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
- which had become official January
1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation
had little impact on the Texans due
to the minimal number of Union troops
to enforce the new Executive order.
However, with the surrender of General
Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival
of General Granger's regiment, the forces
were finally strong enough to influence
and overcome the resistance.
For
more information about Juneteenth, please
visit the folowing sites:
We all hit the proverbial brick wall with
one or many of our ancestors while doing
our research. With all the new information
available online, you might decide to
revisit a family line that you may have
set aside. That is exactly what
Ms. Abrams did before she located QuanTriel
on the St. Louis African American History
and Genealogy Society's website and decided
to contact her for help.
Isabel
Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,
and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns:
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
From
World War I to the 1970s, some six million
black Americans fled the American South for
an uncertain existence in the urban North
and West. They left all they knew and took
a leap of faith that they might find freedom
under the Warmth of Other Suns.
Their
leaving became known as the Great Migration.
It brought us James Baldwin, Miles Davis,
John Coltrane, Richard Wright and the forebears
of Michelle Obama, Toni Morrison and of most
African-Americans in the North and West. It
set in motion the civil rights movement and
created our cities and art forms.
This
is the story of three who made the journey,
of the forces that compelled them to leave
and of the many others—famous and not so famous—who
went as far as they could to realize the American
Dream.
Hitting The Proverbial Brick Wall
Saturday,
May 21st, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Missouri
History Museum, AT&T Foundation Multipurpose
Room
Does it feel like you've
gotten off the trail? Learn special techniques
and strategies for finding lost family members.
Researching Blended Families: Native Americans
In The African American Family
Saturday,
April 16th, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Missouri
History Museum, AT&T Foundation Multipurpose
Room
Join us for this special
workshop led by Angela Walton-Raji,
who specializes in research pertaining to
both African American and Native American
genealogies.
St.
Louis County Library, Headquarters - Auditorium
1640
S. Lindbergh Blvd
This is a special workshop "African
American Research in Special Collections"
offered by Ruth A. Hager of the St. Louis
County Library's Special Collections Department
.
The
workshop will be an introduction to using
and making the most of African American
resources and services for family history
research at St. Louis County Library. There
is no charge for the workshop.
Missouri
History Museum, AT&T Foundation Multipurpose
Room
Join accomplished writer
and genealogist Dorothy Spruill Redford
, retired curator of Somerset Place
North Plantation State Historic Site and
descendant of slaves on Somerset Place.
Missouri
History Museum, AT&T Foundation
Multipurpose Room
Documentary: Marines of Montford Point,
Fighting for Freedom
Guest
Speaker: Tony Chestang
View the event flyer
Learn compelling military
history through the documentary
The Marines of Montford Point: Fighting
for Freedom. The film
profiles the first African American
recruits in the United States Marine
Corps, beginning with their experiences
at Montford Point Base, a segregated
boot camp in the heart of the Jim
Crow South. Narrated by Lou
Gossett Jr. Running time: 60
min.
Angela Bates-Tompkins, founder and
Executive Director of the Nicodemus Historical
Society, presents this look at Nicodemus,
Kansas, the longest-lasting black town
in the state and a monument to the black
pioneers who came to Kansas in search
of new opportunities and prosperity.
Bates-Tompkins is a descendant
of the original settlers of Nicodemus.
Get
all the tips you need about planning your
family reunion from Charles U. Brown,
Jr., St. Louis African American History
& Genealogy Society President, and
host of his own family reunions.
Learn special strategies for organizing
reunions.
