Until recently, the event known as The Weeping Time, which took place on March 2-3, 1859, at the Ten Broeck Race Course in what is now known as West Savannah, had the unenviable distinction of being ...

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Waters knew about her parents’ roles as civil rights activists in the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott and their friendships with Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Not only did she grow up hearing ...

Janice Roots' ancestors were chattel numbers 118 through 122, she said. Roots found her distant kin when searching national archives. She came to her grandmother's great-grandfather at number 118.

On March 3, 1859, journalist Q.K. Philander Doesticks (Mortimer Thomson) attended an auction of 436 men, women and children formerly held by Pierce M. Butler. Butler’s slaves were auctioned in order ...