Posted on Feb 20, 2023
1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson
There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at 4-years-old, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing intense courses of radiation and chemotherapy. He thinks that plays a part in why so much of his childhood is "hazy."
Forgetting after all, is a side effect of trauma.
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson
There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at 4-years-old, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing intense courses of radiation and chemotherapy. He thinks that plays a part in why so much of his childhood is "hazy."
Forgetting after all, is a side effect of trauma.
1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals
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An interesting family. Like most Americans, I have ancestors on both sides of the slave issue.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
MSG Stan Hutchison Slavery? Not So Much in My Family. Now Native American Issues? Yeah there's a Bit of a Rub there, I'm a Dawes, My Oldest 3 Grandchildren are Part Native Americans. "Dawes Roll?' I Get it, it was the First "Census" as Such of Native Americans and still used to "Confirm" Native American Ancestry but there is Something Pretty Screwed Up with a Document by a Scotsman being used to determine Who Is and Who Isn't "Native American".
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“In 1926, Woodson created Negro history week, anchoring it between the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In the 1970s the week officially expanded to a month.
Woodson helped pioneer the field of African American history, especially when it comes to education, and he fiercely believed that Black history should not be a separate, segregated thing, that our histories are intertwined.”
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"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated." — Carter G. Woodson
Woodson helped pioneer the field of African American history, especially when it comes to education, and he fiercely believed that Black history should not be a separate, segregated thing, that our histories are intertwined.”
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2023/02/19/ [login to see] /woodsons-slaves-black-history-month-family-heal
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated." — Carter G. Woodson
1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals
In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.
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