I'ver weritten the City Manager and the Lion's Club on Use of m the SAL Station as a Memorial to those forced to leave in 1920.
I'll attach the letter to return email anyone contacting me at daveklepper@yahoo.com.
Here is the letter, and you are welcome to comment:
I believe the train station in Ocoee is now home to the Lions's Club.
You may want to reach out to them.
https://www.ocoeelionsclub.com/
Done. Email yesterday. To the email address you noted. I will post any replies, unless confidentiality is requested.
And anyone who wishes to join this effort is most welcome.
And possibly there are other towns and cities where non-white people were similarly driven from their homes.
daveklepperAnd possibly there are other towns and cities where non-white people were similarly driven from their homes.
How many of those places would officially build the kind of reminder against injustice that the German example constitutes, rather than devolving into wrongheaded 'white shaming' of one sort or another, remains to be seen, though. This is an age of blame and retribution, not repentance accepted for healing, and I suspect many communities where historical atrocities occurred may not be eager to spend scarce resources on something that only threatens to stir up protest attention.
One thing I wish would happen is that some of the activists who have adopted 'never forget' crowdfund a standing charity expressly for building and maintaining these sorts of memorial.
Quote: This is an age of blame and retribution, not repentance accepted for healing,.....
A real shame. What can we do to change that?
1. Police in the USA should try more to recruit non-white members. Instead of "Defunding," there should specific funding for just that purpose.
2. Wharever funding the USA gives to the Holocaust Museum in Washington should be at least matched or exceeded by a fund for the kind of memorial I hink for Ocoee and for other cities. Possibly, the injuries suffered by Native Indians, Chinese, and Japanise-Americans, as well. (I think Mormons might be insulted to suggest they need this, since they have done a very good job about presenting their own history and suffering in the historically accirate "Legacy" in thier acoustically and visually first-class Imax Theatre in Salt Lake City.)
Overmod daveklepper And possibly there are other towns and cities where non-white people were similarly driven from their homes. Well, of course there's Greenwood, a story recently in the partisan news. And Rosewood. I suspect there were many more around that time. How many of those places would officially build the kind of reminder against injustice that the German example constitutes, rather than devolving into wrongheaded 'white shaming' of one sort or another, remains to be seen, though. This is an age of blame and retribution, not repentance accepted for healing, and I suspect many communities where historical atrocities occurred may not be eager to spend scarce resources on something that only threatens to stir up protest attention. One thing I wish would happen is that some of the activists who have adopted 'never forget' crowdfund a standing charity expressly for building and maintaining these sorts of memorial.
daveklepper And possibly there are other towns and cities where non-white people were similarly driven from their homes.
Well, of course there's Greenwood, a story recently in the partisan news. And Rosewood. I suspect there were many more around that time.
It is seeming that 1920 was a time of extreme persecution all across the country of black citizens...Tulsa and the above mentioned incidents.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Let us not forget the indigenous population, the 'forgotten minority', from whom we stole this country and who are still persecuted to this day. These trepidations occurred around the same time as the Tulsa Massacre but are mired in obscurity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders
The Federal Government does support the Smithsonians Native American Museum in Washington, which does tell the story pretty accurately. In addiion, near it, will be museum specially for those Indians who served in the Armed Forces, to open in November. But i agree that some local museums or other commemoration to specific events are appropriate in addition.
But other than the Slave Quarters at Williamsburg, I don't know of other museums on slavery of African-Americans. Is there, are there?
daveklepperBut other than the Slave Quarters at Williamsburg, I don't know of other museums on slavery of African-Americans. Is there, are there?
Louisiana has one of the best at Whitney Plantation, upriver from New Orleans.
https://www.whitneyplantation.org/
The Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge has quite a few preserved plantations that illustrate not only the slave owners' lives, but also the lives of the slaves and their living quarters.
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I simply did not know that. Thanks. Probably was too busy with whatever N ew Orleans spare time I had devoted to trolley riding to learn!
"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members. The Museum opened to the public on September 24, 2016, as the 19th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution."
https://nmaahc.si.edu/
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