© Kevin Walsh
Don’t know if it’s still there, but this was on Reid Ave (Malcolm X), just N of Gates Ave in Bed-Stuy. I took it in 1988 – Kevin
Tribute to Rodger McFarlane – Homo Sex in Colonial America – Larry Kramer
Homo Sex in Colonial America
This is the last piece I had input on from my just departed dearly beloved Rodger McFarlane, who read and critiqued everything I have ever written. He loved it, as he loved me. And I pass it on to you, to the world, in memory of him, who encouraged me so and believed in me so, as I did him.
May he be at peace.
Larry
Rodger McFarlane - Former Gill Foundation executive director and longtime philanthropist Rodger McFarlane died May 15 in New Mexico. He was 54. - Advocate
Larry Kramer has been writing his The American People since 1978. His first draft, just completed, is some 4000 pages. He and his editor are now rolling up their sleeves. – Huffington Post
Broadway Lights Dimmed In Tribute Of Mobile Native – WKGR Mobile-Pensacola
Negro Sales & Marriages
Library of Congress by way of Wikipedia
There was a time in our history when African-American marriages under slavery were not recognized. After their emancipation, this caused much legal wrangling.
Before the Civil War, slave marriages had no legal standing. During the war, blacks serving in the Union Army married under military authority. Henry M. Turner, one of the first black chaplains to serve in the Union Army, officiated at the wedding of Rufus Wright and Elisabeth Turner.
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On June 21, 1864, six months after his marriage, Wright died of abdominal wounds received in action at Petersburg. His widow’s legal status enabled her to receive pension benefits from the federal government. – America’s Reconstruction: People & Politics After the Civil War – Digital History
Imagine that!
Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) – Composer
GO DOWN MOSES!
Harry T. Burleigh (1866 – 1949), a great singer and expert on spirituals is associated with this song but it was written before he was born. The author is unknown. The Golden Gate Quartet, Paul Robeson, and Louis Armstrong all recorded wonderful versions of it. The story is about the exodus of the Hebrews (people of Israel) from Egypt after 300 years of slavery.
Harry T. Burleigh – Wikipedia
