Doesn't make sense at all! Still no reparations! No 40 acres or a mule!
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Can you imagine this Building was owned by Black Man? Boston, Massachusetts. Color slides by Spencer Grant (1979) via Boston Public Library
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'Potato King of The World', Farmer, landowner and businessman, Junius G. Groves (1859-1925), was one of the wealthiest African Americans of the early 20th century.
Born enslaved in Green County, Kentucky, Groves was later liberated and joined other freedmen in the "Great Exodus" to Kansas in 1879, eventually finding work as a farmhand.
Impressed with his strong work ethic and production, Groves' employer offered him nine acres of land to farm on shares. By 1884, he and his wife Matilda had saved enough to purchase 80 acres of land near Edwardsville, Kansas. So successful was their venture that, just four years later, they had acquired a total of 2,000 acres and replaced their one-room shanty with a 22-room mansion. Groves made a name for himself as a potato grower, producing as many as 721,500 bushels in one year - far and away more than any other farmer - and earning the title of "Potato King of the World." He also operated a general store, maintained several orchards, and had investments in various mining and banking interests. Groves worked the farm until his death in 1925. He attributed his success to the endless hard work and devotion of his wife and 12 children.
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MLK Jr. Assassination Attempt -
On 20th September 1958, Izola Ware Curry, a 42-year-old mentally disturbed woman, stabbed Martin Luther King, Jr., while he signed copies of his book, Stride Toward Freedom, at Blumstein's Department Store in Harlem, New York.
Izola Ware Curry was born June 14, 1916 in Adrian, Georgia. She was married to James Curry. The couple lived in Savannah until the late thirties when they separated then Izola Curry moved to New York City. She lived on the top floor of a tenement house at 121 W.
122nd Street in Harlem. She worked as a domestic she was unemployed. Her mind, clouded with thoughts of fear, fear of a false enemy, began fail her. For years, Curry feared the N.A.A.C.P.
She believed that the members of the organization were all Communists.
Her life was a series of troubles. Her marriage was troubled. Her life was troubled. Her mind was troubled. Her mind in turmoil, her reasoning gone, she took a letter opener and plunged it into to the breast of Dr. Martin Luther King on September 21,1958 in New York City. She was arrested at the scene and later found to be carrying a loaded gun. During her questioning by police at New York's 28th Precinct, Curry indicated that she believed the NAACP and King had been "boycotting" and "torturing" her. When asked why she stabbed King she replied, "if it wasn't him it would have been me, he was going to kill me." She was committed to Bellevue Hospital for observation and soon found not competent to stand trial.
On October 20, 1958, Curry was committed to Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, where she was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. To this day few people, if any, know of the whereabouts of Izola Curry, of even if she is alive. Surprisingly, journalists who would have ordinarily covered the case in great detail have not covered the entire event more. Few, if any, photographs of Izola Ware Curry exist.
Izola Ware Curry died on March 7, 2015 in Queens New York. She was 98.
Ms. Curry died in a nursing home, the last stop in the series of institutions that had been her home for more than half a century.
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Blackfoot Indians on the roof of the Hotel McAlpin, New York City, 1913.
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Coney Island. Photographs by Anthony Barboza (1970s)
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