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PRESERVING For several months, Dr. Jeannette C. Holmes-Vann,

founder of Hope Chapel Ministries has provided a venue
for education and discussion of black heritage and its
BLACK impact on the United States and the world.

HISTORY SISTER NORIIE WRIGHT

Q:How have you become more knowledgeable about your
heritage?

FEBRUARY 2016 A: “I always wondered about how the 1800s carried
over to the 1900s.The videos showed insights into
slavery how it went on for 400 hundred years I learned
“Philosophers have long con- about the positions in government. Financial stability

ceded that every man has two of slaves were not as advanced as other races. I too,
learned the value of voting and how I have to vote my
educations: “that which is given conviction, I learned the value of being a woman, be-
to him, and the other which he cause we too can make a difference. As these thoughts

gives himself” cross my mind, I see the bigger picture now.”

LEADING POET AND WRITER FRANCES E. W. HARPER

Frances E.W. Harper was a leading
African-American poet and writ- long and prolific career, publishing
er. She was also an ardent activist her first book of poetry at age 20
in the abolitionist and women’s and her widely praised novel Iola
rights movements. Harper had a Leroy, at age 67.

JIMMIE LEE JACKSON REMEMBERED FOR HIS TRAGIC
DEATH AT 26 YEARS OLD
Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson is remembered for his tragic death at 26 years
old at the hands of an Alabama state trooper during a small protest as part
of the larger civil rights movement in Marion, Perry County. His death was
eulogized by Martin Luther King Jr., and other movement leaders called for a
march from Selma to Montgomery to protest Jackson’s death and advocate
for voting rights. That March 7 event ended prematurely with a violent re-
sponse from law enforcement that quickly became known as “Bloody Sun-
day,” but it prompted federal lawmakers to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

NATHANIAL “NAT” TURNER
Nathanial “Nat” Turner was the South, Turner’s action set movement,
leader of a powerful Maafa and assembly of enoff a new wave of
(slavery) revolt in Southampton oppressive legislation prohibiting the
County, Virginia, in 1831. Nat education, slaved African-Americans
Turner’s Rebellion was one of the and stiffened pro-slavery, anti-abo-
most effective, sustained rebel- litionist convictions that persisted in
lions in U.S. history. Spreading that region until the American Civil
terror throughout the whyte
War (1861–65).

22 LOH Magazine / February 2016