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| Meet a woman who experienced history! |
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| These programs are usually thirty to forty-five minutes in length, followed by a question and answer session. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Meet: Mary Johnson (17th century slave, indentured servant to free Negro and landowner): Mary tells the stories she has heard from her husband about coming to Jamestown, the Middle Plantation massacre, and the movement from indentured servitude to slavery in the country. |
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| Oney Judge (18th century Free Woman, past personal maidservant to Martha Washington): Oney talks about her life with the Washingtons, her home and upbringing, her run for freedom, and her new life as a Free Negro. |
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| Ol' Bess (18th century tavern slave): Ol' Bess shares some of the things happening in the colonies in 1774, as well as her life and the ways she has learned to survive as a slave. |
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| Betsy Costner (19th century pre or post Civil War slave): Betsy can speak from a pre-Civil War view about her daily life, relationships with free Negroes and whites in Mississippi and the runaways and abolitionists she has heard about. Or, she can speak from a post-Civil War view about the Civil War itself, the destruction and "this new thing called freedom." |
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| Mary Peake (19th century, African-American teacher in Hampton, Virginia): Mary speaks about the difficulty in providing education in the South after the Emanicpation Proclamation. She also discusses the difficulty in obtaining education in the "free" North and the pressures in her day to day life. |
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| Madam C.J. Walker (post Civil War and early 20th century, first Negro female millionaire): Madam C.J. Walker speaks about her life, her business and its challenges, her determination to fight against segregation, and the need for ecomonic development of ALL people. |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (20th century, Harlem Renaissance African - American author): Zora shares the world of the Harlem Renaissance, her time collecting "old" stories, and her brief time in the world of voodoo and intrigue. |
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| Daisy Bates (Arkansas NAACP president): Ms. Bates talks about her life before becoming NAACP president, her relationship with Thurgood Marshall, and the infamous year when Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was to be integrated. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Looking for a specific historical figure? Contact History's Alive! We can arrange for other presenters to visit you as well! |
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