Posted on 07/06/2020 6:56:11 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
"Like all symbols of American patriotism, the Fourth of July has meant different things in different times and places. In Memphis in the first decades after the Civil War, Brian D. Page writes, it was a distinctly Black holiday. ..(Snip)"
(Excerpt) Read more at daily.jstor.org ...
Tennessee Historical Quarterly Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 284-301 (18 pages)
In view of the historical vandalism that is going on around us its worth reading Mr. Page's well researched article to get a feel for Black freedman activity prior to Democrat instituted Jim Crow laws.
In addition a discussion of the Fourth of July, it depicts an organized and active American black community and documents Freedman benevolent societies and organizations an postwar pre-Jim Crow south. (Includes a positive Nathan Bedford Forrest reference for those intrested!)
Here is a direct link.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42627498?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents
Info on online publisher, JSTOR:
"JSTOR Daily is an online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship. Drawing on the richness of JSTOR’s digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, thousands of monographs, and other materials, JSTOR Daily stories provide background—historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise—for understanding our world. All of our stories contain links to free, publicly accessible research on JSTOR."
(Off to do errands and chores, etc.)
I bbq’d jerked chicken, is that being co-opted?
They havent “coopted” anything.
Yeah, I had to hold the phone a little closer when I reread your post ...
Nah, thats Cook-ockted.
See post 1!
Well, History takes a bit of room, consider it for full screen!
At the rate we’re going, the screen on my old flip phone might suffice.
“...the only history that will exist is the current history of the party....”
About right!
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