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Black History: By Richard Jackson – Wendell Phillips Dabney

By Shotty SEO February 16, 2017 February 16, 2017 Blogging

For the next few days I’ll be taking pages from my own family history. I’d like to thank my wife who gifted me with these stories that I can share with you. Wendell Phillips Dabney -1865-1952, born in Richmond Va. the son of former slaves. The first African American city paymaster of Cincinnati, first local president of the NAACP. In 1902 he entered the world of publishing starting the Ohio Enterprise, predecessor to The Union. He also wrote Maggie L. Walker: The Woman and Her Work, a biography on a long time friend who was the first African American woman to own a bank. 33rd degree Mason. #blackhistoryfacts #mybloodrunsdeep #knowyourhistory #familytree

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Black History: By Richard Jackson – Samuel Lee Gravely

By Shotty SEO February 14, 2017 February 14, 2017 Blogging

Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. (June 4, 1922 – October 22, 2004) was an African-American pioneer in the United States Navy — the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral. Following his military retirement, Gravely settled in rural Haymarket, Virginia, and worked as a consultant. After suffering a stroke, Gravely died at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on October 22, 2004. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
In Richmond, the street on which Gravely grew up was renamed “Admiral Gravely Boulevard” in 1977. The destroyer USS Gravely (DDG-107), commissioned in 2010, was named in his honor. #blackhistoryfacts #blackhistory #VaProud #Richmond #Glory #whentheygongiveusthebluesuits

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Black History: By Richard Jackson

By Shotty SEO February 13, 2017 February 13, 2017 Blogging

J. Alexander Chiles was one of eight children, including his twin brother, John R. Chiles, who gave him financial assistance while he was a student at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) and the University of Michigan Law School. Chiles moved to Lexington, KY, in 1890 to open a law office at 304 W. Short Street. His business was a success; Chiles is sometimes referred to as the first African American lawyer in Lexington. By 1907, he was one of four African American lawyers in the city. Chiles became the first African American lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court in 1910. He argued in the case against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for desegregation of railroad coaches after he was removed by force to the Colored coach in spite of his first class ticket from Washington D.C. to Lexington. Chiles was also an active member of the Seventh Day Adventist congregation in Lexington; he was a trustee, deacon, and treasurer of the first church built in 1906 at the corner of Fifth and Upper Streets. His wife, Fannie J. Bates Chiles, was the first librarian for the church. James A. Chiles was born in Virginia, the son of Richard and Martha Chiles. James Alexander Chiles died in Richmond, VA in April of 1930 #blackhistory #blackhistoryfacts #hekeptthesabbath

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