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 In 2005, I thought that it was about time that we started the conversation: about who we are, and where we came from:

Time to differentiate ourselves from Emma Lazarus' "... huddled masses, longing to be free..." (of the 20th Century).

Recognizing that, more often than not, perception creates a reality of it's own. 

 

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Amelia Evans Greene

  

Almeter Drakeford Harris

  

Ruth McCarley Harris and daughter Bobbi Harris Burkes 

 

 

Frank Harris Sr. 1954

Johnnie Harris Jr. 1953

 

      

  LJ Harris-1945

  Oscar Harris 1945

 

Lela-Mae Harris 52'

   

Walker Jones 1950 (est.)   

 

 

  

Sunman, Bigmama, & Johnnie Lee 1979 

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 _ Graduate of the Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, 1983  

   

_Graduate of Central Connecticut State                            

 _ former bodybuilder au naturel.

_ insurance underwriter turned social historian.

 

 

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Monday
Feb022009

Rock Spring Church: developing a single sense of family.

 

      rockspring.jpgRock Spring Church anchored the religious community of my youth.

It was here that Mother sang Precious Lord, and here that "the numen pranced about their grave:"

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It was here that we took refuge from the Night-Riders; it was here that we prayed for devine intervention.

It is here that many of our people now rest. And if you look within a 25 mile radius, you'll find the rest of them: within religious communities marked by White Oak, Ebenezzer, Macedonia, Cedar Creek, A.M.E.; geo-political boundaries such as Kershaw, Lancaster,.. areas known as Liberty Hill, Red Hill, Flat Rock, etc.

That's the primary reason why I revealed the names as they existed at the turn of the 20th Century ( to facilitate your search) :

 

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