In 1861, soon after the Civil War began, Union forces took over the coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina. Confederate plantation owners fled the area leaving behind people they had enslaved, plus hundreds of acres of land and crops that needed to be harvested. The federal government issued an order that those freed by the Union Army would be…
In August 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed a voting rights act into law. The law, The Voting Rights Act of 1965 “outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.” Today, more than 50 years later, some states are still making it more difficult to vote, particularly…
Banker and Community Leader in Jackson Ward, the First Black WallStreet In the early 1900s, and after being disenfranchised by Virginia’s new constitution, Black citizens of Richmond Virginia, with little political power, created a bustling business district in the Jackson Ward section of Richmond. That area was the first to be called “Black Wall Street.” Jackson Ward was home to…
Black Americans have been celebrating Juneteenth since 1866. What is Juneteenth? What is the history behind the holiday? When the 1860 census was recorded, there were four million people held in slavery in southern states, including Maryland and Delaware. White farmers depended on that free labor to grow and harvest their crops. Abraham Lincoln, who was a candidate for president…
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It…
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web…
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web…
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web…