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Grooch
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06-16-2006
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 9:00 pm
Juju, is there a link or something where you can find out where to go and have it done? I remember reading about it years ago and I found it amazing. Going by memory, I think they can only find out about one side of your family, not both. I can't remember if it was the mother's or the father's side. I also think they said most people are shocked when they find out the results.
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Mocha
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08-12-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 5:03 am
Zuzu I totally forgot about that. I'm going to have to find out where this place is or what I have to do to sign up. Thx for the reminder!!
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Mocha
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08-12-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 5:12 am
Google is again amazing. Grooch here's what I found: DNA Testing Ancestry or Ethnicity GeneTree's Ancestral Origins DNA Tests examine three types of hereditary markers: Autosomal DNA (this line makes up the majority of who we are), Paternal DNA (the Y-chromosome DNA, passed from father to son), and Maternal DNA (the mtDNA, passed from mother to all her children). Not only will you discover the birthplace of your ancestors, but the path they took and their unique discoveries, such as agriculture, language, and tools which set them aside from others as they traveled from continent to continent over the course of human history. It's your unique anthropological identity, whether you're of Native American, Northern European, Mediterranean, South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, or of African descent. DNA testing research on full-blooded indigenous populations from all around the world has led to the discovery of several genetic markers that are unique to specific populations, ethnicity and/or deep ancestral migration patterns. The DNA markers that have very specific modes of inheritance, and which are relatively unique to specific populations, are used to assess ancestral relatedness. There are 3 types of DNA inheritance patterns that DNA markers follow; the Autosomal DNA line, the paternal DNA line or the maternal DNA line. The Autosomal DNA line makes up the majority of who we are. It is composed of all the DNA in the cell except the X-chromosome, the Y-chromosome and the mtDNA. You inherit 50% of your autosomal DNA from your mother and 50% from your father. The Y-chromosome DNA markers are paternally linked. They are passed from father to son. The mtDNA markers are maternally linked. They are passed from the mother to all of her children. Then, only the female children pass it on to all their children, and etc. These Ancestral Origin™ DNA tests are most commonly used: For those that wondered if they are of Native American, Northern European, Mediterranean, South Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, or of African descent. For those that are adopted, or have adopted parents, and are curious about what ancestral heritage they have. For those that are predominantly African and curious about other ancestry they may have. For those that want to expand and confirm their family's historical information. For those that would like to uncover their personal anthropological history. To understand how an individual’s DNA can be used to identify a relationship to a specific population, see the Y-chromosome Haplogroup or mtDNA Haplogroup pages. FREE Overnight Delivery with Any DNA Test Purchase AncestryByDNA™ Autosomal DNA Test More Info... Percentage of genetic ancestry is calculated based on 175 known ancestry informative SNP markers. $240.00 Maternal mtDNA Ancestry Test More Info... Examines the mtDNA sequence for assigning to an ancestral maternal line haplogroup. $245.00 Paternal Y-DNA Ancestry Test More Info... Examines the Y-chromosome for assigning to an ancestral paternal line haplogroup. For male participants, only. $245.00 Combo Y/mtDNA/AncestryByDNA Test Examines the Y-chromosome, mtDNA and Autosomal AncestryByDNA to assess ancestry. For male participants, only. $650.00 Euro-DNA 1.0 More Info... AncestryByDNA plus an additional 145 European ancestry associated SNP markers (320 SNPs total). For participants having nearly exclusive Indo-European ancestry. $430.00 Euro-DNA 1.0 -UPGRADE- More Info... Only available to participants who have had the AncestryByDNA test. This test examines an additional 145 European associated SNP markers. link
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Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:00 am
I ran across this the other night while I was looking something else up. I am going to copy and paste part of my comments from Mocha's folder. I think it is such a disservice not only to African Americans but to all the citizens that this is not included as a part of the area's history. Does anyone know if there are any type of service or committee that can at least have markers put up about the events that took place? I have some stuff I want to post in the BH thread. When I'm sick I don't type much but I read, read, read. I was looking something up the other night and stumbled across this link. I read for hours. It is so dark and so disturbing that I was kind of hesitant about posting it. But I just can't get it off my mind. The thing is I lived there for 15 years, my husband was born and raised there and neither of us had ever heard on word about what happened. The warehouse and train depot are still standing. Matter of fact the site of the burning is described to be almost right where our property was. It makes me sick that this is not included in Georgia history anywhere. It has made me realize for every one thing we know a hundred other things happened we never heard about. I don't understand why there are at the very least markers proclaiming what happened at these sites. And want to know how that can go about being arranged. Oh mind you there is now a new subdivison called Cranford Mill. I always knew the Cranfords were considered to be early prominent family of Palmetto. My husband's parents rented the only house that stood on that property over looking the lake in the late 60's. The house is now gone. And they never heard this story. This is the first page. Here is the link link CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog Ralph E. Luker Chris and I Hunt Some Lynchings and Historic Markers My virtual son, Chris, who blogs at Outside Report, shares my interest in Georgia's violent racial history. Last summer, we drove east from Atlanta to visit the site of the multiple racial murders in 1946 at Moore's Ford Bridge. On Saturday, we drove southwest of Atlanta to visit the sites of some lynchings that I had written about in my second book and he had written about in his senior thesis at Emory. They took place between February and April 1899 at different locations along the road (now State Highway 29) that runs between Palmetto and Newnan, Georgia. Unlike the 1946 murders at Moore's Ford Bridge, however, there are no historical markers to identify the sites of the 1899 murders of John Bigby, Henry Bingham, Bud Cotton, Tip Hudson, and Ed Wynn and the subsequent lynching and burning of Sam Hose (Samuel Wilkes) and lynching of Lige (Elijah) Strickland. Although we'd both written about them, Chris and I had to reacquaint ourselves with the gory details of the events at Palmetto. Here's a rough chronology of what happened: February 1899 – Several buildings (reports vary from one to three buildings to two blocks of buildings) burn in Palmetto. 15 March 1899 – Nine African American men are arrested for arson. They are bound with rope and, under armed guard, are placed in a warehouse near Palmetto's depot, awaiting rail transportation for trial the next morning. 16 March 1899 – Between midnight and 1:00 a.m., an armed and masked mob of about 100 white men break into the warehouse and fire at all the prisoners. Four of them are killed immediately; one of them has mortal wounds; and two others are injured. The mob disperses into the night. At 10:40 a.m., a special train brings a command of state militia to the scene. The white townsmen are armed and, apparently expect local African Americans, who had fled, to attack the town at dark. The families of all the men accused of arson are driven from the community. No charges are ever brought for the murders, "at the hands of persons unknown." 12 April 1899 – Samuel Wilkes (aka Sam Hose), an African American laborer on the farm of Alfred Cranford near Palmetto, approaches his employer about his pay. Cranford draws a gun and Wilkes kills him with an ax. Subsequent accounts claim that Wilkes also threw the Cranford's infant to the floor and raped Mrs. Cranford. Wilkes flees to the south. 13 April 1899 – The first newspaper accounts of the murder of Alfred Cranford report a widespread search for Wilkes and, matter-of-factly, that he will be lynched and his body riddled with bullets or burned. 22 April 1899 – Wilkes is caught near his mother's home between Macon and Griffin Georgia. The Governor orders him brought to Atlanta for trial, but he is taken to Newnan. 23 April 1899 -- On Sunday morning, a crowd of 2000 people take him about a mile and a half out on the road to Palmetto. Children in the crowd are sent ahead to gather up firewood. Wilkes is hung and burned. Sunday's banner newspaper headlines notified the public of the event and, after church, special trains from Griffin and Atlanta bring additional site-seers out to the Palmetto Road for the occasion. Witnesses gather charred remains from the fire. 23 April 1899 – Some witnesses claim that shortly before his death, Wilkes said that a Baptist preacher, Elijah Strickland, had paid him $20 to kill Alfred Cranford. That evening, Lige Strickland is seized by a mob, tortured, and hung from a Persimmon tree near Palmetto. His ears and a finger are cut from his body. 24 April 1899 – The trophies from Lige Strickland's body are on display in Palmetto and W. E. B. Du Bois, a member of the faculty at Atlanta University, sees the charred knuckles of Sam Wilkes hanging in the window of a butcher shop in Atlanta. Newspaper accounts of the events gave us only the roughest approximate locations. As we drove into Palmetto, however, we spotted the old railroad depot that stands near the warehouse in which the men accused of arson were killed. The railroad paralleled the highway as we drove out of Palmetto and stopped at a place near where Lige Strickland would have been lynched. So far as as we could tell, the modest building of North Coweta Baptist Church stands just about there. We were tempted to knock on its door and ask the pastor if he knew that an earlier Baptist preacher had been lynched there. As we drove toward Newnan, however, the real estate became increasingly impressive. Sam Hose would have died on what is now very expensive property. The crowd that burned him, after all, was led by prominent businessmen in the community. There was no historic marker anywhere in sight. It isn't that these events are unknown. Du Bois wrote about the lynching and burning of Sam Hose in The Souls of Black Folk and Ida B. Wells wrote about the murders of the African American men at Palmetto in March 1899, the lynching and burning of Sam Hose outside Newnan, and the subsequent lynching of Lige Strickland near Palmetto. More recently, Fitzhugh Brundage and Philip Dray have written about these events. But, on the face of things along Highway 29, you'd never know anything happened there. Chris and I drove into Newnan and had lunch at Sprayberry's, a haunt once favored by Newnan's Alan Jackson and Lewis Grizzard. The barbecue was just o.k., better than what we were served in Monroe, but almost anything would be. The brunswick stew was better. I'm beginning to think that barbecue isn't an appropriate repast when you are hunting down lynching sites. We stopped at the public library and confirmed that there were grizzly reports of the 1899 events on its microfilm copies of the local newspaper. So far as we could tell, however, all local memory of them was tucked safely away in their metal filing cabinets. 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Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:13 am
The above story took me to this link link Here is chapter 1. Lynch Law in Georgia - Chapter I By Ida B. Wells-Barnett A Six-Weeks' Record in the Center of Southern Civilization, As Faithfully Chronicled by the "Atlanta Journal" and the "Atlanta Constitution." ALSO THE FULL REPORT OF LOUIS P. LE VIN, The Chicago Detective Sent to Investigate the Burning of Samuel Hose, the Torture and Hanging of Elijah Strickland, the Colored Preacher, and the Lynching of Nine Men for Alleged arson. This Pamphlet is Circulated by Chicago Colored Citizens. 2939 Princeton Avenue, Chicago. 1899 CONSIDER THE FACTS. During six weeks of the months of March and April just past, twelve colored men were lynched in Georgia, the reign of outlawry culminating in the torture and hanging of the colored preacher, Elijah Strickland, and the burning alive of Samuel Wilkes, alias Hose, Sunday, April 23, 1899. The real purpose of these savage demonstrations is to teach the Negro that in the South he has no rights that the law will enforce. Samuel Hose was burned to teach the Negroes that no matter what a white man does to them, they must not resist. Hose, a servant, had killed Cranford, his employer. An example must be made. Ordinary punishment was deemed inadequate. This Negro must be burned alive. To make the burning a certainty the charge of outrage was invented, and added to the charge of murder. The daily press offered reward for the capture of Hose and then openly incited the people to burn him as soon as caught. The mob carried out the plan in every savage detail. Of the twelve men lynched during that reign of unspeakable barbarism, only one was even charged with an assault upon a woman. Yet Southern apologists justify their savagery on the ground that Negroes are lynched only because of their crimes against women. The Southern press champions burning men alive, and says, "Consider the facts." The colored people join issue and also say,, "Consider the fact." The colored people of Chicago employed a detective to go to Georgia, and his report in this pamphlet gives the facts. We give here the details of the lynching as they were reported in the Southern papers, then follows the report of the true facts as to the cause of the lynchings, as learned by the investigation. We submit all to the sober judgment of the Nation, confident that, in this cause, as well as all others, "Truth is mighty and will prevail." NINE MEN LYNCHED ON SUSPICION. In dealing with all vexed questions, the chief aim of every honest inquirer should be to ascertain the facts. No good purpose is subserved either by concealment on the one hand or exaggeration on the other. "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," is the only sure foundation for just judgment. The purpose of this pamphlet is to give the public the facts, in the belief that there is still a sense of justice in the American people, and that it will yet assert itself in condemnation of outlawry and in defense of oppressed and persecuted humanity. In this firm belief the following pages will describe the lynching of nine colored men, who were arrested near Palmetto, Georgia, about the middle of March, upon suspicion that they were implicated in the burning of the three houses in February preceding. The nine suspects were not criminals, they were hard-working, law-abiding citizens, men of families. They had assaulted no woman, and, after the lapse of nearly a month, it could not be claimed that the fury of an insane mob made their butchery excusable. They were in the custody of law, unarmed, chained together and helpless, awaiting their trial. They had no money to employ learned counsel to invoke the aid of technicalities to defeat justice. They were in custody of a white Sheriff, to be prosecuted by a white State's Attorney, to be tried before a white judge, and by a white jury. Surely the guilty had no chance to escape. Still they were lynched. That the awful story of their slaughter may not be considered overdrawn, the following description is taken from the columns of the Atlanta Journal, as it was written by Royal Daniel, a staff correspondent. The story of the lynching thus told is as follows: Palmetto. Ga., March 16.--A mob of more than 100 desperate men, armed with Winchesters and shotguns and pistols and wearing masks, rode into Palmetto at 1 o'clock this morning and shot to death four Negro prisoners, desperately wounded another and with deliberate aim fired at four others, wounding two, believing the entire nine had been killed. The boldness of the mob and the desperateness with which the murder was contemplated and executed, has torn the little town with excitement and anxiety. All business has been suspended, and the town is under military patrol, and every male inhabitant is armed to the teeth, in anticipation of an outbreak which is expected to-night. Last night nine Negroes were arrested and placed in the warehouse near the depot. The Negroes were charged with the burning of the two business blocks here in February. At 1 o'clock this morning the mob dashed into town while the people slept. They rushed to the warehouse in which the nine Negroes were guarded by six white men. The door was burst open and the guards were ordered to hold up their hands. Then the mob fired two volleys into the line of trembling, wretched and pleading prisoners, and to make sure of their work, placed pistols in the dying men's faces and emptied the chambers. Citizens who were aroused by the shooting and ran out to investigate the cause were driven to their homes at the point of guns and pistols and then the mob mounted their horses and dashed out of town, back into the woods and home again. None of the mob was recognized, as their faces were completely concealed by masks. The men did their work orderly and coolly and exhibited a determination seldom equaled under similar circumstances. The nine Negroes were tied with ropes and were helpless. The guard was held at the muzzle of guns and threatened with death if a man moved. Then the firing was deliberately done, volley by volley. The Negroes now dead are: Tip Hudson, Bud Cotton, Ed Wynn, Henry Bingham. Fatally shot and now dying: John Bigby. Shot but will recover: John Jameson. Arm broken: George Tatum. Escaped without injury: Ison Brown, Clem Watts. The men who were guarding the Negroes are well know and prominent citizens of Palmetto, and were sworn in only yesterday as a special guard for the night. The commitment trial of the Negroes was set for 9 o'clock this morning. Bud Cotton, who was killed, had confessed to the burning of the stores in Palmetto, and had implicated all the others who had been arrested. The military having been sent by Governor Candler arrived at 10:40 o'clock this morning on a special train under command of Colonel John S. Candler. The Negro population of Palmetto has fled from town and it is believed the Negroes are now congregating on the outskirts and will make an assault upon the town to-night. The place is in the wildest excitement and every citizen is armed, expecting an outbreak as soon as night shall fall. The Negroes left the town in droves early this morning, weeping and screaming and dogged and revengeful. Business has been entirely suspended and Palmetto, formerly a peaceful agricultural village, is running riot with intense excitement and anxiety is expressed by every one. The lives and property of citizens will be protected at any cost, and the white people, while condemning the act of lawlessness of the mob, are determined to meet any attempt the Negroes may make for revenge. It was just past the hour of midnight. The guards were sleepy and tired of the weary watch and the little city of Palmetto was sound asleep, with nothing to disturb the midnight hour or to interrupt the crime that was about to be committed. Without the slightest noise the mob of lynchers approached the door to the warehouse. Not a false step was made, not a dead leaf was trod upon and not even the creaking of a shoe or the clearing of a throat broke the stillness. With a noise that shook the buildings and threw every man to his feet the big fireproof door was suddenly struck as if with the force of a battering ram. The guards sprang to their guns and the Negroes screamed for mercy. But there were rifles, shotguns and pistols everywhere. The little anteroom was packed full of armed men in an instant. The men seemed to come up through the floor and through the walls, so rapidly did they fill the room. And still others poured in at the door, and when the room was filled so that not another man could enter, the door was slammed to with awful noise and force. The Negroes were screaming at the top of their voices. "Hands up and don't move; if you move a foot or turn your hands I will blow your damned brains out," came the stern and rigid command from a man of small, thick stature, his face wholly concealed by a mask of white cloth and holding in his hands a couple of dangerous horse pistols. The guards threw their hands up above their heads, all except one guard, James Hendricks, who lifted only one hand, while the other firmly grasped his revolver. "I'll blow hell out of you in a minute if you don't put that hand up," came the warning, and the hand followed the other one. The command was then given to move, and move quick. "You guards, move, and move quick, if you don't want to get your brains blown out," cried the low man, who was the mob's leader. The guards were then placed in line, six of them, and marched around the room and then marched to the front of the room, near the door through which the mob had entered. They were placed in line against the front wall of the building and ordered not to move at the cost of their lives. They did not speak, neither did they move, and not a word was said by the guard to the mob. The men then walked around where they could get a good look at the trembling, pleading, terror-stricken Negroes, begging for life and declaring that they were innocent. There was a moment's pause of deliberation. The Negroes thought it meant that the assassins hesitated in their bloody deed, but the men hesitated only because they wanted deliberate action and a clear range for their bullets. The Negroes, helpless, tied together with ropes, begged for mercy, for they saw the cold gun barrels, the angry and determined faces of the men, and they knew it meant death--instant death to them. "Oh, God, have mercy!" cried one of the men in his agony. "Oh, give me a minute to live." The cry for mercy and the prayer for life brought an oath from the leader and derisive laughter from the mob. "Stand up in a line," said the man in command. "Stand up and we will see if we can't kill you out; if we can't, we'll turn out." The Negroes faltered. "Burn the devils," came a suggestion from the crowd. "No, we'll shoot 'em like dogs," said the mob's leader. "Stand up, every one of you and get up quick and march to the end of the room." The Negroes slowly stood up. The mob came closer and pressed about the stacks of furniture that had been stored in the room. The leader asked if everybody's gun was loaded and the men answered in the affirmative. The Negroes pleaded and prayed for mercy. They stood, trembling wretches, jerking at the long ropes that held them by the waist and about the wrists. "Oh, give me a minute longer!" implored Bud Cotton. "My men, are you ready?" asked the captain, still cool and composed and fearfully determined to execute the bloodiest deed that has ever stained Campbell County. "Ready," came the unanimous response. "One, two, three--fire!" was the command, given orderly, but hurriedly. Every man in the room, and the number is estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty, fired point blank at the line of trembling and terror-stricken bound wretches. The volley came as the fire from a gatling gun. It filled the warehouse with smoke and flame and death and brought a wail of horror that chilled the helpless guard. The volley awakened the peaceful town of Palmetto and from every house the excited citizens ran. "Load and fire again," shouted the captain of the mob, and his voice was heard above the screaming and death cries of the wounded and dead. The men rapidly loaded their guns, then fired at the given command. "Now, before you leave, load and get ready for trouble," came the captain's order, and then men loaded their guns and got ready to leave the bloody room. The guard was not relieved, however, until every man had left the building and all was safe for their hasty flight. "I wonder if they are all dead," said one of the mob, when the order was given to leave the building. "I reckon so," said one of the mob. "But we had better see," said the captain coolly and assuming an air of business. A detail of probably a half dozen men, probably a dozen and maybe more, the guard does not remember just how many, was sent forward into the blood and brains and into the twisting mass of dying men to examine if all were dead. They were given orders to finish those who were not dead. The detail rushed forward. The men jerked the fallen, twisting and writhing and bleeding bodies about. The first man they reached was not dead. He was still groaning, and the breath was coming in great, quick gasps. A pistol was placed at his breast and every chamber was emptied. "He's dead now," laughed one of the crowd. Other men, wounded, bleeding, moaning and begging, were caught, turned over and pistols emptied into their bodies. But the shooting had made so much noise that the mob concluded its safety lay in flight. The Negroes were quickly examined and with a parting shot and a volley of oaths of warning the mob left the warehouse and rushed to their horses. The men ran from the warehouse to the little spot in the center of the town, where horses are tied by countrymen and merchants. They mounted quickly and began their ride for life. With a sweeping of falling and echoing hoofs the cavalry-men dashed down the principal street at breakneck speed. Mr. Henry Beckman, who lives a few hundred yards beyond the scene of the murders, heard the firing and ran from his house to the railroad tracks. The horsemen, using the lash and urging their horses to their highest speed, dashed into view. "Hello," said Beckman. "What does all that firing mean?" Beckman was answered with an oath and told to get into his hole as quickly as possible. "If you don't, we'll kill you on the spot," was the warning. Beckman flew for life, ran through the yard and entered the house as quickly as possible. Dr. Hal L. Johnson saw a crowd of men on foot running down the sidewalk. He hailed them, but there was no response. "There must have been more than one hundred men on horses," said Mr. Beckman this morning, in telling the Journal of his wild night experience with the mob. When the mob left, the guards, who had been held against the warehouse wall at the points of guns and pistols, turned their faces toward the scene of carnage and death. The furniture in the room had been splintered and wrecked with bullets and the contortions of the Negroes. On the floor, near the center of the room, were two Negroes, still tied with the rope, locked in each other's embrace. Near their bodies streams of blood were dyeing red the floor and spreading out in pools. Just beyond were two more bodies. These Negroes were dead, too. Near the fireplace was John Bigby, twisting and writhing in his agony. Blood was spouting from a number of wounds. Under the beds and tables and piles of furniture were other bodies, every prisoner apparently dead, except Bigby, who was fast regaining consciousness. The guards open the door cautiously, but there was no sign of the mob, save the echoing footfalls on the country road.
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Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:25 am
CHAPTER II. TORTURED AND BURNED ALIVE. The burning of Samuel Hose, or, to give his right name, Samuel Wilkes, gave to the United States the distinction of having burned alive seven human beings during the past ten years. The details of this deed of unspeakable barbarism have shocked the civilized world, for it is conceded universally that no other nation on earth, civilized or savage, has put to death any human being with such atrocious cruelty as that inflicted upon Samuel Hose by the Christian white people of Georgia. The charge is generally made that lynch law is condemned by the best white people of the South, and that lynching is the work of the lowest and lawless class. Those who seek the truth know the fact to be, that all classes are equally guilty, for what the one class does the other encourages, excuses and condones. This was clearly shown in the burning of Hose. This awful deed was suggested, encouraged and made possible by the daily press of Atlanta, Georgia, until the burning actually occurred, and then it immediately condoned the burning by a hysterical plea to "consider the facts." Samuel Hose killed Alfred Cranford Wednesday afternoon, April 12, 1899, in a dispute over the wages due Hose. The dispatch which announced the killing of Cranford stated that Hose had assaulted Mrs. Cranford and that bloodhounds had been put on his track. The next day the Atlanta Constitution, in glaring double headlines, predicted a lynching and suggested burning at the stake. This it repeated in the body of the dispatch in the following language: "When Hose is caught he will either be lynched and his body riddled with bullets or he will be burned at the stake." And further in the same issue the Constitution suggests torture in these words: "There have been whisperings of burning at the stake and of torturing the fellow low, and so great is the excitement, and so high the indignation, that this is among the possibilities." In the issue of the 15th, in another double-column display heading, the Constitution announces: "Negro will probably be burned," and in the body of the dispatch burning and torture is confidently predicted in these words: "Several modes of death have been suggested for him, but it seems to be the universal opinion that he will be burned at the stake and probably tortured before burned." The next day, April 16th, the double-column head still does its inflammatory work. Never a word for law and order, but daily encouragement for burning. The headlines read: "Excitement still continues intense, and it is openly declared that if Sam Hose is brought in alive he will be burned," and in the dispatch it is said: "The residents have shown no disposition to abandon the search in the immediate neighborhood of Palmetto; their ardor has in no degree cooled, and if Sam Hose is brought here by his captors he will be publicly burned at the stake as an example to members of his race who are said to have been causing the residents of this vicinity trouble for some time." On the 19th the Constitution assures the public that interest in the pursuit of Hose does not lag, and in proof of the zeal of the pursuers said: "'If Hose is on earth I'll never rest easy until he's caught and burned alive. And that's the way all of us feel,' said one of them last night." Clark Howell, editor, and W. A. Hemphill, business manager, of the Constitution, had offered through their paper a reward of five hundred dollars for the arrest of the fugitive. This reward, together with the persistent suggestion that the Negro be burned as soon as caught, make it plain as day that the purpose to burn Hose at the stake was formed by the leading citizens of Georgia. The Constitution offered the reward to capture him, and then day after day suggested and predicted that he be burned when caught. The Chicago anarchists where hanged, not because they threw the bomb, but because they incited to that act the unknown man who did throw it. Pity that the same law cannot be carried into force in Georgia! Hose was caught Saturday night, April 23, and let the Constitution tell the story of his torture and death. From the issue of April 24th the following account is condensed: Newman, Ga., April 23.--(Special.)--Sam Hose, the Negro murderer of Alfred Cranford and the assailant of Cranford's wife, was burned at the stake one mile and a quarter from this place this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Fully 2,000 people surrounded the small sapling to which he was fastened and watched the flames eat away his flesh, saw his body mutilated by knives and witnessed the contortions of his body in his extreme agony. Such suffering has seldom been witnessed, and through it all the Negro uttered hardly a cry. During the contortions of his body several blood vessels bursted. The spot selected was an ideal one for such an affair, and the stake was in full view of those who stood about and with unfeigned satisfaction saw the Negro meet his death and saw him tortured before the flames killed him. A few smoldering ashes scattered about the place, a blackened stake, are all that is left to tell the story. Not even the bones of the Negro were left in the place, but were eagerly snatched by a crowd of people drawn here from all directions, who almost fought over the burning body of the man, carving it with knives and seeking souvenirs of the occurrence. Preparations for the execution were not necessarily elaborate, and it required only a few minutes to arrange to make Sam Hose pay the penalty of his crime. To the sapling Sam Hose was tied, and he watched the cool, determined men who went about arranging to burn him. First he was made to remove his clothing, and when the flames began to eat into his body it was almost nude. Before the fire was lighted his left ear was severed from his body. Then his right ear was cut away. During this proceeding he uttered not a groan. Other portions of his body were mutilated by the knives of those who gathered about him, but he was not wounded to such an extent that he was not fully conscious and could feel the excruciating pain. Oil was poured over the wood that was placed about him and this was ignited. The scene that followed is one that never will be forgotten by those who saw it, and while Sam Hose writhed and performed contortions in his agony, many of those present turned away from the sickening sight, and others could hardly look at it. Not a sound but the crackling of the flames broke the stillness of the place, and the situation grew more sickening as it proceeded. The stake bent under the strains of the Negro in his agony and his sufferings cannot be described, although he uttered not a sound. After his ears had been cut off he was asked about the crime, and then it was he made a full confession. At one juncture, before the flames had begun to get in their work well, the fastenings that held him to the stake broke and he fell forward partially out of the fire. He writhed in agony and his sufferings can be imagined when it is said that several blood vessels burst during the contortions of his body. When he fell from the stake he was kicked back and the flames renewed. Then it was that the flames consumed his body and in a few minutes only a few bones and a small part of the body was all that was left of Sam Hose. One of the most sickening sights of the day was the eagerness with which the people grabbed after souvenirs, and they almost fought over the ashes of the dead criminal. Large pieces of his flesh were carried away, and persons were seen walking through the streets carrying bones in their hands. When all the larger bones, together with the flesh, had been carried away by the early comers, others scraped in the ashes, and for a great length of time a crowd was about the place scraping in the ashes. Not even the stake to which the Negro was tied when burned was left, but it was promptly chopped down and carried away as the largest souvenir of the burning.
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Karuuna
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08-31-2000
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:36 am
No offense intended, but if a link is available, we prefer not to have extremely long posts of copyrighted material. First, it's against the law to republish such material without permission. Second, for some of our webtv users, the pages won't load if they are extremely long. Thanks for understanding! 
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:38 am
Oh no offense taken. LOL saves me a lot of time, Stephanie is pulling at me as I type this wanting my attention. Yes I posted both links at the beginning of my first 2 posts.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 8:50 am
It's a shame there isn't some kind of marker at every place where a person died a brutal death/murder.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 9:00 am
Mocha, this is the one I was thinking of: https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/participate.html It is the one my friends did. Ah, I see it will not give you a tribe. I didn't read enough of the other one to see whether it would either.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 10:08 am
Mocha, maybe you could do one parent, and Mjsmooth the other.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:19 am
Good idea Zuzu. Biloxi I have no words. Escapee, frankly I'm not concerned about every person who died a brutal death/murder.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 11:57 am

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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 6:15 pm
In Virginia, More to 'Get Over' Than Slavery
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, January 21, 2007 - 6:22 pm
From the article...
quote:Professor Richard F. America put it this way in his book "Paying the Social Debt: What White America Owes Black America": "Discrimination is good for someone, but most people have chosen to think of it merely as unkind or socially unfair. . . . Restitution theory strips away the pretense. It lets us see how discrimination has indirectly enriched millions of people relative to those who have been excluded." Now chill. This piece isn't about reparations. It is, however, a reminder -- as if one is needed -- that the Emancipation Proclamation did not remove the shackles from the descendants of slaves; that injustice and inequality were an integral part of Virginia during the adult life of Frank Hargrove. Which gets me to the source of his consternation: the legislative proposal for Virginia to issue an apology for slavery. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. But if the effort must be made, why should the apology be limited to involuntary servitude? Why not include the sins of segregation and discrimination? Unlike slavery, those are sins that loads of Virginians, alive and well today, had something to do with.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 4:43 pm
Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 race case By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writers 54 minutes ago JACKSON, Miss. - A white former sheriff's deputy who was once thought to be dead was arrested on federal charges Wednesday in one of the last major unsolved crimes of the civil rights era — the 1964 killings of two black men who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River. The break in the 43-year-old case was largely the result of the dogged efforts of the older brother of one of the victims, who vowed to bring the killers to justice. James Ford Seale, a 71-year-old reputed Ku Klux Klansman from the town of Roxie, was charged with kidnapping hitchhikers Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19. The victims' weighted, badly decomposed bodies were found by chance two months later in July 1964, during the search for three civil rights workers whose disappearance and deaths in Philadelphia, Miss., got far more attention from the media and the FBI. Seale is expected to be arraigned on Thursday in Jackson. A second man long suspected in the attack, church deacon and reputed KKK member Charles Marcus Edwards, now 72, was not charged. Sources close to the investigation, who did not wish to be named, say Edwards was cooperating with authorities. Prosecutors did not say why Seale was not charged with murder. The arrest marked the latest attempt by prosecutors in the South to close the books on crimes from the civil rights era that went unpunished. In recent years, authorities in Mississippi and Alabama have won convictions in the 1963 assassination of NAACP activist Medgar Evers; the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that killed four black girls; and the 1964 Philadelphia, Miss., slayings. "I've been crying. First time I've cried in about 50 years," Moore's 63-year-old brother, Thomas, said after the arrest. "It's not going to bring his life back. But some way or another, I think he would be satisfied." Dee's sister, Thelma Collins, told The Associated Press through grateful sobs: "I never thought I would live to see it, no sir, I never did. I always prayed that justice would be done — somehow, some way." Seale and Edwards are suspected of kidnapping the two victims in a Klan crackdown prompted by rumors that black Muslims were planning an armed "insurrection" in rural Franklin County. Seale and Edwards were arrested at the time. But, consumed by the search for the three missing civil rights workers, the FBI turned the case over to local authorities. And a justice of the peace promptly threw out all charges against Seale and Edwards. In 2000, the Justice Department's civil rights unit reopened the case. For years, Seale's family had told reporters that he had died. But in 2005, Thomas Moore and a Canadian documentary filmmaker, David Ridgen, found Seale, old and sick, living just a few miles down the road from where the kidnapping took places. "If they hadn't brought it to my attention, I wouldn't have known to do anything," said U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, chief federal prosecutor in Jackson. Thomas Moore said he always carried a burden of guilt over his younger brother's death. "I walked around with an amount of shame," the Colorado Springs, Colo., man said. "I didn't know why, why it happened to us, that I wasn't there to do something — to do SOMETHING." Former Gov. William Winter, who was co-chairman of President Clinton's racial reconciliation initiative, said the latest arrest — though done by federal rather than state authorities — shows that Mississippi "now is obviously seeking to make up for lost time in bringing people to justice." "Mississippi is taking a look at those crimes that were committed in a different era when a different attitude prevailed," said Winter, who governor in the 1980s. On May 2, 1964, Charles Moore and Dee were hitchhiking near an ice cream stand in the town of Meadville when Seale pulled over and offered them a ride, a Klan informant told the FBI. The Klan had heard rumors of black Muslim gunrunning in the area, and Seale believed the two were involved, authorities said. According to FBI interrogators, Edwards admitted that he and Seale took the two men into the woods for a whipping. But Edwards said both men were alive when he left them. An informant told the FBI that Seale's brother and another Klansman took the unconscious blacks to the river, lashed their bodies to a Jeep engine block and some old railroad tracks, and dumped them over the side of a boat. The other Klansmen and the informant have since died. Searchers were combing the woods and swamps for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner when the remains of Dee and Moore were discovered near Tallulah, La. The bodies of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi a short time later. According to FBI documents from the 1960s, authorities confronted Seale and told him they knew he and others killed the hitchhikers, and "the Lord above knows you did it." "Yes," Seale was quoted as replying, "but I'm not going to admit it. You are going to have to prove it." The U.S. Justice Department reopened the case after The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson uncovered documents indicating that the beatings had occurred in the Homochitto National Forest, giving the FBI jurisdiction. But the case languished until Seale was located. "I had other plans to confront him a long time ago — violently," Thomas Moore said.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 8:36 pm
Wow. It does feel good that some of these old cases are finally being prosecuted. They were probably all pretty much solved in the week after the crimes.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 3:27 pm
MLK party causes uproar on Texas campus I so look forward to the day when this crap doesn't happen again ...
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 3:45 pm
Smh
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Friday, January 26, 2007 - 8:25 am
me too
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, January 29, 2007 - 3:08 pm
A coalition of black community organisations in Los Angeles have succeeded in forcing the cancellation of a comedy act featuring a white gay comedian who performs in blackface and denigrates African Americans. Charles Knipp, a white gay comic whose jokes are lost on the African American community performs in blackface and stands accused of portraying negative stereotypes of black Americans. Protestors criticized Knipp for depicting African American women as : “Being on welfare, living in the projects, illiterate, shoplifting sexually promiscuous mothers who don’t know who their children’s fathers are.” On top of that, Knipp, who goes by the stage name of ‘Shirley Liquor’ is accused of mocking Kwanzaa, the African American holiday and likening sexually transmitted diseases to traditional African American names. The drag queen was due to appear at the Factory Nightclub in West Hollywood, but following the outcry from the African American community who sent faxes and emails and telephoned in protest, the organisers cancelled the show. But the war is not over yet. Knipp is due to appear at clubs in New Orleans during Mardis Gras week on February 17 and 23. Community organiser Jasmyne Cannick said: “African Americans were not going to take this lying down. The misrepresentation of our community has gone on far too long.” Cannick told Black Britain that she did not know what Knipp was thinking of in taking his routine to New Orleans during Black History Month: “But it’s not funny.” She said it was inappropriate in 2007 that this type of sick and racist act should be in existence: “It’s 2007 and no-one should be performing in blackface anymore.” Despite the coalition of several black community organisations in the protest, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) of Greater Los Angeles, the LA Urban Policy Roundtable, Youth Advocacy Organisation and the South Bay Chapter Rainbow Push Organisation, white supporters have been noticeable by their absence, Cannick said. “Only one white group joined us- the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, but all the other gay groups did not join us and did not support us.” Asked by Black Britain whether the lack of outrage amongst white Americans was disturbing, Cannick was clearly incensed at the lack of support from the gay community: “It annoys me because they (gays) are always trying to equate their struggle with the black struggle for civil rights, but yet they don’t see how offensive this minstrel or mammy show is to African Americans.” The first American film to feature black characters was Uncle Tom in 1903, a silent movie which was played by a white actor. Black actors were not allowed to appear on screen and the characters conformed to racist stereotypes. Even when black actors were first allowed to appear on television or in shows they had to wear blackface to suit white audiences or were not allowed to perform. Black Britain shared with Cannick the sense of outrage felt by the black community in Britain over the comments by Shipwrecked contestant Lucy Buchannan, a miss nobody who gained her 15 minutes of fame by stating on national TV: “I’m for the British Empire and things. I’m for slavery…” adding: “from what I have seen they are really bad,” in reference to black people. Cannick was shocked that this could be broadcast on national TV, and even more shocked at the lack of response by black community leaders. She told Black Britain: “If they said that here, there would be a major problem.” link
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 6:24 am
Today is the start of Black History Month! Yay!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 6:55 am
The Origins of Black History Month The story of Black History Month begins with historian Carter G. Woodson. Woodson was passionate about black history. His passion, however, evolved in the most unlikely place. While working at a coal mine when he was twenty, the daily conversation of the black Civil War veterans often focused on interesting historical facts not recorded in history books. Woodson realized that despite the constantly evolving history of the African American experience, documentation was sparse. Woodson’s enthusiasm led him to college where he earned a bachelor degree in European history and a Ph.D. in history. As a new graduate, he managed to earn a living as a high school teacher and later as a professor of history at Howard University. Yet, his desire to document black history remained. He co-founded and financed the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 with the lofty goal for it to both publish and fund research and writing projects about black history. After the organization received substantial funding, Woodson was able resign from Howard and dedicate all of his time to the Association. Through the organization, he established a home study program, directed the study of African American history in schools, hired researchers to search the international archives, and lastly, he founded the Associated Publishers, which published books and resources about black history. The Association also published the quarterly publication the Journal of Negro History, which was distributed throughout the world. In 1926, Woodson finally came across an idea that would forever associate his name with Black History Month. Negro History Week, as it was called by the black fraternity Omega Psi Phi, was a week in February dedicated to celebrating the achievements of blacks. Their celebration was somewhat stagnant until Woodson offered to put the Association’s name behind the idea in February 1926. Through Woodson’s promotion of the celebration in the Journal of Negro History and the creation and distribution of kits for children, Negro History Week gained in popularity. In 1976, it evolved into Black History Month. Sources: Gates, Henry Louis and West, Cornel, The African American Century, Touchstone, 2002. http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/blkhistorymonth/a/origins.htm
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 8:27 am
This Day in African American History February 1 1834: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner was born. 1902: Writer Langston Hughes was born. 1956: The Montgomery Improvement Association filed suit in the United States District Court challenging the constitutionality of bus segregation. 1960: Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro. This led to the spread of sit-ins throughout the South. 1965: Martin Luther King and 250 marchers were arrested after marching in Selma, Alabama for voting rights. 2003: Michael Anderson was one of seven astronauts who died aboard the shuttle Columbia 16 minutes prior to its landing in Florida. source
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 9:55 am
Thanks for the info, Ladytex.
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