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Enslaved men and women were present at the College of New Jersey from its very beginning. The first nine presidents of t...
09/02/2026

Enslaved men and women were present at the College of New Jersey from its very beginning. The first nine presidents of the college all owned slaves. An enslaved family consisting of two women, a man, and three children, lived and worked at the President’s House during the 1760s, and enslaved people continued to live there into the 19th century. Students and other guests arriving at the house to take exams or to conduct business would have encountered these individuals on intimate terms.

Slavery was everywhere in town, surrounding and permeating the school. Slaves worked on farms, drove carriages and sleds, cooked meals, and washed clothes. When Nassau Hall burned to the ground in 1802, destroying most of the college library and causing thousands of dollars’ worth of damage, Princeton residents suspected that a rebellious slave lit the blaze. An individual identified only as “Findley’s Negroe boy” was captured after setting two other fires in the vicinity. His owner may have been Robert Finley (class of 1787), a tutor and later trustee of the colleg

Long before the modern civil rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s, Moore was a crucial trailblazer. He founded the fir...
09/02/2026

Long before the modern civil rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s, Moore was a crucial trailblazer. He founded the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida, and eventually became the president of the Florida state chapter.

He fought tirelessly for equal pay for Black teachers, investigated lynchings across the state, and helped register thousands of African-American voters.

Because of their prominent activism, both Harry Moore and his wife Harriette were fired from their teaching positions. On Christmas night in 1951, their home in Mims, Florida was targeted in a tragic bombing by the Ku Klux Klan. He died en route to the hospital, and his wife passed away from her injuries a few days later, making them some of the earliest martyrs of the contemporary Civil Rights Movement.

Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore do not have any living children.They had two daughters Annie Rosalea Moore (nicknamed "Peaches"), who was born in 1928 and passed away in 1972 at the age of 44.

Juanita Evangeline Moore, who was born in 1930 and passed away on October 26, 2015 at the age of 85. She spent much of her later life successfully advocating to cement her parents' vital place in civil rights history.

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This payroll acknowledges that J. B. Stanard, 1st Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, paid certain persons from Madison Coun...
09/02/2026

This payroll acknowledges that J. B. Stanard, 1st Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, paid certain persons from Madison County, Virginia, for work performed by enslaved men near Richmond, Virginia, from December 1862 to March 1863.

Gibson S. Conway provided enslaved men named Jackson, Frank, and two named George.

Noel May provided an enslaved man named Layton.

R. C. Garnett provided enslaved men named Harris and Jack.

George W. Clark provided enslaved men named Henry and Sicy.

Lucy Fry provided an enslaved man named Strother.

Thomas Jones provided an enslaved man named Granville.

Ambrose Jones provided an enslaved man named Spotswood.

William Brown provided an enslaved man named Waller.

Daniel J. Smoot provided an enslaved man named Alex.

Jonathan Roberts provided an enslaved man named Ellis.

We forgot the artist that is singing name is R-Baby.
09/02/2026

We forgot the artist that is singing name is R-Baby.

09/02/2026

This month we showcase steppin ( footwork ) styles.

REMEMBER LADIES N GENTLEMAN. YOU CAN EASILY BREAK A CHILDS ARM...WRIST....OR ELBOW BONE. THINK BEFORE YOU LIFT AND THINK...
09/02/2026

REMEMBER LADIES N GENTLEMAN. YOU CAN EASILY BREAK A CHILDS ARM...WRIST....OR ELBOW BONE. THINK BEFORE YOU LIFT AND THINK BEFORE YOU GET UPSET AT YOUR CHILD!

Every 75 minutes a child under 10 visits, in your city, a local ER due to this type of abuse

Fun Labor Day Cake Ideas No eggs or oil needed
09/02/2026

Fun Labor Day Cake Ideas

No eggs or oil needed

On August 7, 1926, Wiggins drove his homemade car to victory at the 3rd Annual 100-Mile Championship Auto Race, known as...
09/02/2026

On August 7, 1926, Wiggins drove his homemade car to victory at the 3rd Annual 100-Mile Championship Auto Race, known as the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, held at the one-mile dirt track of the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

A brilliant mechanic and fuel scientist, Wiggins meticulously designed his vehicle out of salvaged junkyard parts. He engineered a potent, custom aviation fuel-and-oil blend that allowed him to run the entire 100-mile race without making a single pit stop for fuel, out-pacing expensive factory-built machinery.

Because the American Automobile Association (AAA) enforced strict racial bans that barred Black drivers from competing in premier mainstream events like the Indianapolis 500, Black businessmen and drivers formed the Colored Speedway Association. The Gold and Glory Sweepstakes became the premiere national championship event for African American racers, drawing massive crowds of over 10,000 to 15,000 fans.

Wiggins won the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes a total of four times (1926, 1931, 1932, and 1933). His driving career tragically ended after a severe multi-car crash in 1936, but he continued to modify cars, design his own wooden prosthetic leg, and mentor generations of Black mechanics. After being lost to public view for nearly 90 years, his original No. 23 race car was recently recovered and featured in historical restorations.

She invented the nation's first instant all-purpose hot roll mix in the 1940s, paving the way for the modern convenience...
09/02/2026

She invented the nation's first instant all-purpose hot roll mix in the 1940s, paving the way for the modern convenience baking industry before major commercial brands filled grocery store shelves.

Her famous Chili Biscuits featured on the display card in the image became a legendary creation. They were famously served to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in President Lyndon B. Johnson's White House, and as a premier first-class treat on American Airlines flights.

In 1941, she creatively published her cookbook as a box filled with individual recipe cards, which is captured by the vintage recipe tin pictured on the table.

At age 82 in 1974, she formally incorporated her business as Lucille B. Smith’s Fine Foods, Inc.

She passed away at her daughter Gladys's home in Brenham, Texas, just a few months shy of her 93rd birthday. Following a funeral service at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Fort Worth the exact same church she had given her first $800 in hot roll mix profits to nearly forty years earlier—she was buried in the Smith family plot at New Trinity Cemetery in Haltom City, Texas.

Charleston Race Riot, which occurred on May 10, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina.The events took place on the night o...
09/01/2026

Charleston Race Riot, which occurred on May 10, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina.

The events took place on the night of May 10, 1919. The riot was sparked when white U.S. Navy sailors (referred to as "Bluejackets" in the article) targeted and attacked local Black residents, businesses, and homes. Marines were ultimately deployed to quell the citywide rioting.

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