Primary Sources, Black History

Origins of Watch Night Service! 

Black Methodists and Baptists celebrate Watch Night, December 31, 1862  the Emancipation Proclamation would go into effect at midnight. The celebration continues in African American churches today, striking a more joyous note than prior repentance Watch Nights. 

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The first Watch Night was Dec. 31, 1862, as abolitionists and others waited for word — via telegraph, newspaper or word of mouth — that the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued.

"A lot of it, at least the initial Watch Night, was really many of the free black community," says Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Yet for a people largely held in bondage, freedom is a powerful idea — and that's what the Watch Night tradition embodies.

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Election Fraud Speech led to brutal beaten on the Floor of Congress.... and subsequently, John Brown's RAIDS and ultimately The Civil War

In the first two Kansas territorial elections, one in November 1854 and the second in March 1855, thousands of citizens along Missouri’s western border flooded across the state line into Kansas to throw the popular vote into the hands of the proslavery Kansans.

By intimidating and harassing Free-State settlers at the polling places, they suppressed the Free-State vote.

Some counties recorded more proslavery votes than the total number of residents. A territorial census taken at the beginning of March 1855, for example, counted 2,905 voters, and yet the election 30 days later tallied over 6,000 votes.

The proslavery faction won the territorial elections by overwhelming majorities, and the abolitionists and antislavery partisans were further incensed by the election’s irregularities.

 

Infuriated by the tactics of violence, coercion, and fraud used by the proslavery side to win the first Kansas Territorial elections, abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, in his narrative of “Bleeding Kansas he 

characterized proslavery congressmen to their face as a “noisome, squat, and nameless animal . . . not a proper model for an American senator”.

A slaver retaliated and beat Sumner to a pulp with a cane!

Although it would be three-and-a-half years before Sumner was well enough to return to the Senate, Massachusetts re-elected him, too, by a huge majority. The deep divisions between North and South had never been clearer.

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Petitions, Black Abolitionists & The Gag Rule

Thousands of Anti-Slavery Petitions led to the "Gag Rule"

“Am I gagged or am I not?”

In May of 1836 the House passed a resolution that automatically "tabled," or postponed action on all petitions relating to slavery.

In 1837—38, for example, abolitionists sent more than 130,000 petitions to Congress asking for the abolition of slavery in Washington, DC. In addition they opposed the admission of new slave states and the annexation of Texas. Antislavery opponents became more insistent, Southern members of Congress were increasingly adamant in their defense of slavery.

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As William L. Katz explains in The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History, “Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander.”

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In speeches Mrs. Walker, the founder of  St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. had reasoned, "Let us put our money together; let us use our money; Let us put our money out at usury among ourselves, and reap the benefit ourselves." 

In 1903 she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. Mrs. Walker served as the bank's first president, which earned her the recognition of being the first African American woman to charter a bank in the United States. Later she agreed to serve as chairman of the board of directors when the bank merged with two other Richmond banks to become The Consolidated Bank and Trust Company. Until 2009, the bank thrived as the oldest continually African American-operated bank in the United States.

A young “Miss Maggie” Walker, the daughter of a survivor of slavery, who in 1903 became the first woman of any race to found and become president of an American bank. 

 

ALAMERICA BANK http://bit.ly/MaggieBank

Location: Birmingham, AlabamaFounded: January 28, 2000FDIC Region: AtlantaAssets: $35 404 000

BROADWAY FEDERAL BANK FSB

Location: Los Angeles, CaliforniaFounded: February 26, 1947FDIC Region: San FranciscoAssets: $385 055 000

Location: Savannah, GeorgiaFounded: January 1, 1927FDIC Region: AtlantaAssets: $41 573 000

CITIZENS TRUST BANK

Location: Atlanta, GeorgiaFounded: June 18, 1921FDIC Region: AtlantaAssets: $392 286 000