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Post by sue75 on May 6, 2007 20:21:51 GMT -5
www.juneteenth.com/5newjersey_events.htm Trenton Saturday, June 17, 2006 - Juneteenth 2000 (J2K) Our seventh "Honoring Our Heroes and Sheroes Luncheon" will be held at Maxine2's, Warren St., Trenton, NJ, from noon to 1:30 PM. Honorees are Councilperson-at-Large Cordelia Staton, the founders of the Afrikan Peoples Action School, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ragsdale, whose father, William James Allen, found the Lindbergh baby.(Because we have limited seating,we ask that you call to reserve a seat for the luncheon. 609 599 3653 for information.)A Family Day of Celebration will be held at Cadwalader Park, Parkside Ave., Trenton, from 2 to 7 PM. The 6th Regiment US Colored Troops Re-enactors will be with us again.
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Post by Michael on May 7, 2007 19:25:14 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Apr 6, 2008 0:17:10 GMT -5
www.nyupress.org/webchapters/0814736866pref.pdfsee viii: "...the moderate Roy Wilkins of the NAACP disliked him because of his alleged refusal to shake hands with Negroes and his failure to meet with the black man who found his kidnapped son's remains -- after the child had been murdered in the "crime of the century" -- and because his family hired European, as opposed to Negro domestic servants."
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Post by sue75 on Jun 8, 2009 15:46:44 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Oct 17, 2009 13:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Jan 17, 2010 15:38:21 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Feb 13, 2010 14:41:20 GMT -5
news.google.com/newspapers?id=eIk9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=aisMAAAAIBAJ&pg=805,4742077&dq=lindbergh&hl=en According to this article in Afro American, William Allen was not acknowledged by the Lindberghs, after having found Charles Lindbergh Jr., thus confirming what the Kate Ancrum Burr papers say. This newspaper also says that Lindbergh fired black servants at Next Day Hill. However, another black man refutes these claims.
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Post by Michael on Feb 14, 2010 10:02:51 GMT -5
Sue,
Could you refresh my memory concerning what the Burr papers say?
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Post by sue75 on Feb 14, 2010 10:29:14 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on Feb 14, 2010 10:50:57 GMT -5
"a very sorry thing from beginning to end."
That's how journalist Katherine Beebe Harris summed up the Lindbergh case.
William Allen was a laughingstock, as seen throught the eyes of Harris.
Here is part of one Washington Press Club interview given by Harris in the late 1980s:
"Well, get on out there." [Laughter.] So again, I went back out. That is the time that I first saw these equipment people. They were a rough crowd. They arrived with trucks and they set up their cameras and their sound businesses. We had surrounded this poor Negro driver of a truck who had found the body. He had stopped his truck because the call of nature had gone off in the woods, and apparently the shallow grave had been disturbed by animals, and he found it. Apparently there was still some clothing. They had also taken the baby's clothing off and had sent some piece of a shirt, I think, or something, but there was still clothing and they were able to identify the baby, Lindbergh was. So all this talk about never having the baby was rumors, rumors, rumors, was, I think, not true.
But the poor Negro, they said, "Now you just tell how it happened, now. Tell how it happened." And there we were, this whole mob was there again of the press. [Laughter.] He said, "Ladies and gentlemen." The only kind of speech he'd ever heard started that way.
"No, no, just tell what you found." Oh, it was really a very sorry thing from beginning to end."
(I think the Katherine Beebe Harris and Jane Ead Bancroft interviews ought to be considered again.)
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Post by sue75 on Feb 14, 2010 10:55:43 GMT -5
Jane Eads Bancroft -short bio./ part of oral history project. See bottom to click on interviews. (Use index to search for page numbers for references to Lindbergh, Hauptmann, etc.) www.wpcf.org/oralhistory/eadsint.html
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Post by sue75 on Feb 14, 2010 11:00:22 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on May 11, 2010 18:04:43 GMT -5
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Post by wolf2 on May 11, 2010 18:31:56 GMT -5
great find sue
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Post by sue75 on Apr 24, 2011 11:05:53 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on May 7, 2011 15:07:14 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on May 8, 2011 11:25:29 GMT -5
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Post by sue75 on May 13, 2012 10:00:35 GMT -5
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