AFRICAN AMERICAN MONUMENT TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY SAVANNAH GA
THE CONSORTIUM OF DOCTORS CELEBRATE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MONUMENT TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY IN SAVANNAH GA ON RIVER STREET.
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Yamacraw Brief History: Native Americans & Oldest African American Baptist Church in USA
The History of the Yamacraw Native Americans. Quick Yamacraw Tour & First Bryan Baptist Church, The Oldest African-American Church in the U.S.A
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U.S. Custom House - Savannah, GA
The U.S. Custom House in Savannah is the scene of numerous historic African American stories.
After Reconstruction, some of the first appointments of blacks to government jobs were made in this building. They were appointed to positions including custom officers, postal clerks and letter carriers. The federal court in the Custom House also heard several cases of slave-running from the yacht Wanderer.
Col. John Deveaux, an African American, was made customs collector by President William McKinley in 1898. Deveaux would hold this top position until his death in 1909.
The stunning Greek Revival style building was constructed in 1848. The building at 1 E. Bay Street now houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices.
To learn more about Savannah’s African American history and heritage, go to
First African Baptist Church in Savannah, GA
The oldest African American church
Gullah Geechee Heritage Tour: Remembering the Culture January 17-19, 2014
UNESCO-TST, JGGCDC and SPOHP have co-organized in providing participants an opportunity to visit national monuments, to learn the history of rice production, to understand legal terms such as regulatory agency, become acquainted with Gullah Geechee cultural expressions and explore the Legacy of the Gullah Geechee Culture on the Highway 17 Corridor from Jacksonville, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. These tours will continue to confirm that people of African heritage retained their cultural identity through families, religion, music, spoken words, labor, crafts and cuisines. These tours are active exchanges promoting and sustaining a focus on Gullah Geechee history. Who Knows You May be Gullah Geechee and Don't Know It!
UNESCO-TST
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization - Transatlantic Slave Trade (UNESCO-TST) Education Project, links three regions which were involved in the triangular Transatlantic Slave Trade (Africa, the Americas and Europe). The goal of the TST is to increase awareness of the causes and consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - including modern forms of slavery and racism - through educational exchanges, sharing best practice and developing and diffusing educational material.
JGGCDC
The Jacksonville Gullah Geechee Community Development is a domestic corporation registered in the State of Florida for the purpose of serving Gullah Geechee descendants domiciled within the State of Florida and serve as a support arm for the United States National Park Service, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Additionally, the corporation is responsible for the dissemination of historical information about the African Diaspora and the migration of blacks in the New World.
SPOHP
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is dedicated to gathering, preserving, and promoting living memories for current and future generations. As a leading repository of oral histories in Florida and elsewhere in the South, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program strives to educate, research, and serve North Central Florida by collecting many voices of its community.
Special Tour Guide Adventures
Tour 1 - Sapelo Island GA, by ferry boat, tour guide, Mr. R.J. Grovner
Tour 2 - Gullah Heritage Trail, Hilton Head, SC, tour guide, Mr. E. Campbell
Tour 3 - Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, SC, by ferry boat, tour guide, Ms. Olivia Williams, NPS
Tour 4 - Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston, SC, tour guide, Ms. Christine Mitchell
Tour 5 - First African Baptist Church, Savannah, GA, tour guide, Mr. Jamal
Tour 6 - African American Tour, Savannah, GA, tour guide, Mr. Jamal
Historic Monuments & Sites
*R.J. Reynolds House & Estate, Sapelo Island, GA
*The Light House, Sapelo, Island, GA
*Post Office, Sapelo Island, GA
*Behavior Cemetery, Sapelo Island, GA
*Hog Hammock Community, Sapelo Island, GA
*Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, Sapelo Island, GA
*UNESCO-TST & JGGCDC Planting Ceremony of a Japanese Plum tree, Sapelo Island, GA
*African American Gullah Geechee Community, Hilton Head, SC
*Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head, SC
*Fort Sumter National Monument, Red Bricks made by Slaves, Charleston Harbor, SC
*Fort Sumter National Monument, Canons, Charleston Harbor, SC
*Art of Jonathan Green, at Gullah Cuisine, Mt. Pleasant, SC
*Old Slave Mart Museum, Slave Holding Pen, Charleston, SC
*Haitian Monument, Franklin Square, Savannah, GA
*Slave Holding Pen, 2nd Street, Savannah, GA
*African American Family of Four Monument, Savannah, GA
Gullah Geechee Cuisines
*Grovner's Cuisine, Sapelo Island, GA
*Alice & Ike's Hot Chicken and Fish Restaurant, Charleston, SC
*Gullah Cuisine Charlotte Jenkins, Mt. Pleasant, SC
*Garden of Eden Restaurant, Savannah, GA
Black Catholics in Savannah
Savannah's first black Catholics arrived in the 1790s with their masters. They were escaping from the revolution in French Haiti led by Toussaint Louverture .
For many years, these Catholics worshipped in various private homes. Rarely, a French speaking priest would arrive in the city to celebrate mass for them and preach in French. As the decades passed, and the second generation stopped speaking French, the black Catholics merged with white Irish Catholic who began arriving in the 1840s. By 1850, both groups finally had a church building which eventually became The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist on Lafayette Square.
Today there are several thousand black Catholics living in Savannah. Most are members of St. Benedict the Moor on the city's eastside and The Resurrection of Our Lord on the city's westside.
To learn more about Savannah’s African American history and heritage, go to
Haitian monument unveiled in Savannah, GA
The Haitian Army sent over 500 Soldiers to fight in the Revolutionary War in America , this is the statue in Georgia
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Little Girl...Big City - Black History Monuments of Harlem Tour
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Rare Photos of Slaves in South Carolina From the 1850s/1860s
A collection of photographs of slaves taken throughout South Carolina, mainly in and around Charleston, during the 1850's and 1860's. Taken by photography firm Osborn and Durbec as well as another unidentified photographer.
Sources: Library of Congress, New York Public Library.
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Haitian monument unveiled in Savannah, GA
What is the issue?,Let it stay. The monument looks fine the way it is?
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Moise and Fils-Aime say the statues are the products of the commissioned artist's imagination - Miami Herald 10.24.09
FREEMAN SLAVE OWNERS NAMES FOR, AL,NC,SC, GA, TENN, AND VIRGINIA IN 1830
NAMES OF BLACK FREEMAN SLAVE HOLDER IN THE STATES WHERE THE ORIGINAL CHEROKEE NATION WAS. LINK TO THE ENTIRE PDF
Girls Of The Leesburg Stockade #BLACKHISTORY
Girls Of The Leesburg StockadeIn 1963, about 15 girls between the ages of 12 and 14 were jailed in a one room stockade with no running water for 45 days in a one room jail in Leesburg, Ga. for their participation in Civil Rights marches in In 1963 in Americus, Ga.
They didn't talk about that experience for 50 years. Now the nine surviving members of The 1963 Leesburg Stockade Girls have been nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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The American Prohibition Museum - Savannah GA
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The prohibition era was a tumultuous time in American history. From those in favor of to those against, combined with the people who made millions of dollars defying the ban, conflict was rampant. One thing was certain: There was a ban in place, and it was not working. In Savannah GA, there is a museum dedicated to telling the whole story of the prohibition era, which is much more than you read in the history books! A trip to the American Prohibition Museum – the ONLY museum in the United States dedicated to this era – will enlighten you with their life-like wax figures and exciting multimedia exhibits. It is a sensational place to visit, and we can’t wait to return!
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Times were tough during the late 1920s and the Great Depression era. There were no jobs; banks were closing and people were hungry. What’s worse? They couldn’t even legally drown their sorrows with a cold drink of alcohol!
Prohibition, as it was known, banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors in America from 1919-1933. Ratified on January 29, 1919, the 18th Amendment made it a legal piece of legislation. But, even before 1919, there was a movement under foot to ban booze, beer, wine and the lot from American society. Many thought that intoxicating drinks were the devil’s work. These evil spirits caused good men to go bad and families to shatter. One such person was Carry A. Nation. In the early 1900s, Carry felt it was her mission and a calling from God to stop people from drinking alcohol. She prayed and sang hymns in front of bars, and soon they closed. When that didn’t work, she started carrying a small hatchet, and upon entering the business, would attack the bar until patrons stopped her from the destruction.
You gotta admit, this must have gotten some attention!
Both local and federal government struggled to enforce Prohibition. The thinking behind prohibiting the creation and sale of alcohol was well intended, but the end result meant unregulated moonshine, bootleggers, speakeasies and gangsters.
Mobsters like Al Capone made an amazing $60 million annually from bootleg operations and speakeasies. That is equivalent to almost $900 million in today’s dollars!
What ended prohibition? Probably the fact that it wasn’t really working, and in the process, was helping to fuel mobster income and illegal sales. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed, and it became legal to create and distribute alcohol again.
And today, I am here in Savannah Georgia at the American Prohibition Museum. Within this museum are exhibits, galleries and many facts about a very dry period in American history. It is a great place to explore and learn about a time in history when having a drink could mean going to jail. Thanks for watching! We’ll see you next time on Stories, Secrets and Sagas.
LOCATION
American Prohibition Museum
209 W. St. Julian Street
Savannah, GA 31401
(912) 551-4054
Located next to Ellis Square in the City Market, just blocks away from Robinson Parking Garage
Latitude: 32.080588
Longitude: -81.094448
The Hermitage Slave Plantation, Savannah Georgia
Vintage scenes from old photographs and postcards of the Hermitage Plantation which was once located in Savannah, Georgia. This plantation had at its peak 212 slaves. Most of the pictures were taken back in the early 1900's before the mansion was demolished later in 1935.
The the Hebrew Israelite that migrated in Savannah Georgia
Savannah, Georgia (USA) - History and Facts
Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA), the Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually operating historical society in the South), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America)
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The Oldest Black Church In America Est. 1773
The First African Baptist Church
Address: 23 Montgomery St, Savannah, GA 31401
Founders: David George, George Liele and Andrew Bryan
Pastor(s): Thurmond Neill Tillman
Established: 1773
They give 1 hour tours through the church in Savannah, Ga.
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Old photos of Savannah (Georgia)1865-1907
Old photos of Savannah. All the photos are in the public domain. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. Music from YouTube Audio Library.
Largest Slave Auction In U.S. History
Servant Emannu'el Branch discusses slave re-enactment project: Largest Slave Sale in U.S. History. 400 Black men, women, and children sold off at an auction in Savannah, Ga