You tell the story so beautifully and with conviction. This is a beautiful contribution to human knowledge through eager, idealistic young people, with their whole lives ahead of them, with goals to do good to neighbor and to deepen the heritage of human rights and due process of law in a culture of nonviolence.
I love the story of HBCUs, and I love your way of telling that history.
Wow…I had no idea. Would never have guessed, with Alabama run by MAGA-types forever.
I went out with a young woman from Tuskegee, who was in the Peace Corps, studying at Syracuse University in NY, where we met late in 1963. She was a poet and had published her first book before we met. Her name is Anne Worthen. She was studying Swahili, which I found fascinating, as everything in her (and her roommate’s) apartment was tagged in Swahili. She was so excited to be heading for a new nation, formed JUST THAT YEAR-1964 from the combined states of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
I lost touch with Annie when she graduated and left for Peace Corps assignment and I graduated with degree in Russian language.
See what your item on Alabama HBCUs started? What sweet memories of cheese and white wine on a blanket in a park in 1964, with Annie from an Alabama HBCU.
A 2023 book, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell Raines is about Union sympathizers in parts of N Alabama who, some in Raines’ family, took part in the defeat of the Confederacy. It’s on my list to read. Thank you for sharing your history articles that remind us of the many and complicated layers of our history that too often get overlooked.
Pockets of Union sympathizers existed throughout the Confederacy. West Virginia broke from Virginia, eastern Tennessee almost broke away, there were areas in Louisiana that supported the Union.
Thank you. I do know about historic black colleges set up post-Civil War, especially Tuskegee. I was happy to learn more of about these instructions and the anagram. More interesting, were those set-up during the antebellum period, especially Wilberforce, which was named for the parliamentarian who was instrumental in ending England's trade in slavery and abolishing slavery throughout the empire.
Thank you for this. As it happens, one of my best friends from college went on to teach at Tennessee State in their Public Administration department. She headed that department for awhile and taught Masters and PhD students. I think she was there for at least 30 years and is still listed among the faculty. This article was a necessary addition to what we like to call American history but as it leaves out Black history, among others, we need more of this information. Because we weren't taught. So thank you.
As a child, I remember driving through Holly Springs, MS and passing Rust College. Just this year had their 158 commencement. Small, private traditional HBCU. Didn’t make your list, but it’s still out there doing good things in the state of my birth.
I'm a white guy, and I actually wanted to go to Howard. Here's why:
1. Getting a different perspective on America from classes and classmates
2. Sharing my perspective as a Jew with classes and classmates
3. Access to the greatest museums in America
4. Access to great internships
5. There had to be at least ONE intelligent, attractive young woman in the student body who would say, "Yes, I agree with you...the Yankees should never have let Reggie Jackson go to the Angels., that's interesting about your uncles going to Tulsa after the riots..and I would like to continue this discussion with you over dinner..."
Didn't have the grades or money. I got into NYU as a "legacy." Dad was Class of 1949. He paid $9 a credit.
Celly Blue -- I do know this! --
You tell the story so beautifully and with conviction. This is a beautiful contribution to human knowledge through eager, idealistic young people, with their whole lives ahead of them, with goals to do good to neighbor and to deepen the heritage of human rights and due process of law in a culture of nonviolence.
I love the story of HBCUs, and I love your way of telling that history.
Wow…I had no idea. Would never have guessed, with Alabama run by MAGA-types forever.
I went out with a young woman from Tuskegee, who was in the Peace Corps, studying at Syracuse University in NY, where we met late in 1963. She was a poet and had published her first book before we met. Her name is Anne Worthen. She was studying Swahili, which I found fascinating, as everything in her (and her roommate’s) apartment was tagged in Swahili. She was so excited to be heading for a new nation, formed JUST THAT YEAR-1964 from the combined states of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
I lost touch with Annie when she graduated and left for Peace Corps assignment and I graduated with degree in Russian language.
See what your item on Alabama HBCUs started? What sweet memories of cheese and white wine on a blanket in a park in 1964, with Annie from an Alabama HBCU.
Thank you.
A 2023 book, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell Raines is about Union sympathizers in parts of N Alabama who, some in Raines’ family, took part in the defeat of the Confederacy. It’s on my list to read. Thank you for sharing your history articles that remind us of the many and complicated layers of our history that too often get overlooked.
Pockets of Union sympathizers existed throughout the Confederacy. West Virginia broke from Virginia, eastern Tennessee almost broke away, there were areas in Louisiana that supported the Union.
I think Arkansas had anti-Confederates in the "Kingdom of Jones."
Every Confederate state except South Carolina sent white regiments to the Union.
Yes, that's right! I forgot about Arkansas.
Thank you. I do know about historic black colleges set up post-Civil War, especially Tuskegee. I was happy to learn more of about these instructions and the anagram. More interesting, were those set-up during the antebellum period, especially Wilberforce, which was named for the parliamentarian who was instrumental in ending England's trade in slavery and abolishing slavery throughout the empire.
Thank you for this. As it happens, one of my best friends from college went on to teach at Tennessee State in their Public Administration department. She headed that department for awhile and taught Masters and PhD students. I think she was there for at least 30 years and is still listed among the faculty. This article was a necessary addition to what we like to call American history but as it leaves out Black history, among others, we need more of this information. Because we weren't taught. So thank you.
As a child, I remember driving through Holly Springs, MS and passing Rust College. Just this year had their 158 commencement. Small, private traditional HBCU. Didn’t make your list, but it’s still out there doing good things in the state of my birth.
Thanks for the history lesson. Ohio is proud of Wilberforce and Central State.
I'm a white guy, and I actually wanted to go to Howard. Here's why:
1. Getting a different perspective on America from classes and classmates
2. Sharing my perspective as a Jew with classes and classmates
3. Access to the greatest museums in America
4. Access to great internships
5. There had to be at least ONE intelligent, attractive young woman in the student body who would say, "Yes, I agree with you...the Yankees should never have let Reggie Jackson go to the Angels., that's interesting about your uncles going to Tulsa after the riots..and I would like to continue this discussion with you over dinner..."
Didn't have the grades or money. I got into NYU as a "legacy." Dad was Class of 1949. He paid $9 a credit.
Very much appreciated, CellyBlue! Yes, to what the other commenters said.My knowledge of HBCUs in US has been expanded 1000%.