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1800 mechanical papier-mâché doll
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Original U.S.Fairway display box wih three original golf balls. Manufactured by Product of United States Rubber Company.
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Circa 1930 composition head black doll
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Barack Obama is the 44th President of the U.S.A. The 2008 election demonstrated how far the great Nation of America has come since slavery and the Jim Crow era's.
In the Jim Crow era, Coon Chicken Inn restaurants were located in the states of Oregon, Utah, and Washington. In 1925, Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt opened the one of three Coon's Chicken Inn restaurants. The restaurants remained opened and prospered until the late 1950’s. Around the time Coon Chicken Inn restaurants were closing, Aunt Jemima restaurant opened its doors in Disneyland several more Aunt Jemima restaurants opened across America. Aunt Jemima's trademark was a black lady who wore a gingham scarf with a matching gingham apron along with an over sized smile; Coon Chicken Inn's logo was a grinning black bellhop. To enter Coon Chicken Inn restaurant’s you walked through the bellhop's face and his grinning pearly white teeth. In Aunt Jemima and Coon Chicken Inn restaurant’s black men and women employees portrayed the mammy and bellhop images, smiling was a part of the portrayal. These restaurant’s had utensils, china, glasses, and matches, as well as other items throughout the restaurants with these images.. Aunt Jemima and Coon Chicken Inn trademark’s are just a few Jim Crow and Reconstruction, “images of black folks in their place in society." More restaurants like these existed. Locating restaurant's like these two is another reason collecting Black American artifacts can become a knowledge builder.
York, George Washington Carver, Crispus Attucks and Louis Armstrong are positive individuals whose images are displayed on liquor decanters. Black American's positive images on containers whose contents brought and still brings havoc to black communities does nothing to uplift the Black race or spread the contributions of the Black American's in the building America. It is highly unlikely that a black child is going to pick up a liquor bottle to learn something positive about their legacy. Most people are familiar with everyone mentioned except York.
York was Clark's slave who traveled with Lewis and Clark across America's West. York is one example of a black person whom you will not read about in most history books, if the complete history of the expedition had been written York would be mentioned after all York played a major role in the expedition. Nationally, the achievements of Lewis and Clark, and Sacagawea, have been honored. Lewis and Clark have been honored several times, most recently by the United States Postal Service (USPS), Sacagawea was recently honored when her imaged was used by the United States Mint for the gold dollar, and York was not mentioned at any of the most recent ceremonies. Montana has honored York several times; a statue in Great Falls, Montana honors Lewis, Clark, York and Seaman, Lewis' dog. Lewis and Clark are standing York is kneeling next to Seaman.
The dedication of York's newest statue was on October 14, 2003 in Louisville Kentucky. Want to know more visit Ed Hamilton's web page:
http://www.edhamiltonworks.com/york_lewis_and_clark_expedition.htm .
York is beginning to get the historical acknowledgment and respect he deserves!
Until Black American's as a race respect, trust and love themselves, in all forums other cultures will continue disrespecting Black people as an ethnic group. The complete history of America must be told, so new arrivals to America will understand the plight of most Black American's who are trying to reach the American dream. Especially when some of the new arrivals accomplish their dreams more rapidly and with far less difficulty compared to Black American’s who were born here and their ancestors fought, invented, built and died in America for centuries.
Black American’s loved and still love's the country they helped build. Black American’s have proven over and over their love for America both during wars and during peace. Black American’s have earned their merits therefore, American historian's need to write the correct and complete history of African American’s contributions and plights in the building of America.
President Barack Obama is one Black man who cannot get loss in history. The 2008 election can become the catalyst for the change in the way history is written.
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