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" ... And he wasn’t the only entrepreneur to tower over Greenwood. J.B. Stradford was born in 1861, to a freed slave named J.C. Stradford, who had been emancipated in Stratford, Ontario. After settling in the South, J.C. (for Julius Caesar) named his son J.B. (for John the Baptist). The younger Stradford immediately began fulfilling his father’s dream. He graduated from Oberlin and Indiana Law School, then moved to St. Louis and Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, where he opened pool halls, shoeshine parlors, bathhouses and boarding houses. After one of his hotels went bust, Stradford moved to Tulsa in 1899 and began planning the creation of a Black community on the outskirts of town. ... "
" ... At the age of 17, Nicholas was emancipated from his parents who signed consent for him to get married in 2007. Nick and his wife had two children, Nicholas Jr. (January 11, 2008) and Juli-Ann (February 2, 2009). ... "
" ... But you have to understand that there was no precedent for the circumstances of autumn, 1873. The country was embroiled in a great and contentious conversation over what money and banking and corporations and business should be, all of this happening as new technologies turned millennia-old social processes on their heads. Railroads would have been impossible without corporations, and railroads vastly emancipated and enriched the West (and the rest of the world, wherever they went). Even in an era of price collusion, railroads brought the cost of shipping products down dramatically. The McCormick reaper greatly enhanced the productivity of farms just as a market for their produce appeared by means of cheaper transportation to growing Eastern seaboard cities and Europe. Agriculture went from producing 53% of total national commodity output to less than 33% as manufacturing became dominant, spurring mass labor movement from the country to the cities with their factories. Meanwhile a new wave of immigrants poured into the US. ... "
" ... During Reconstruction, recently emancipated African Americans in the South played a key role in creating a public school system where their children could be educated. It’s time our community returned to the roots of that effort. We must identify and call on the leaders in our communities with the skills, talent, expertise and drive to help govern our schools. And they must step up and take on roles in school district governance, improving its stability and functioning so our schools and our public education system can provide equitable and high-quality education and services that all benefit from. ... "
" ... Historically, philanthropy has been one of the twin drivers of Black education, including higher education. The other driver was the passion and the will of emancipated Blacks in the South who sought education for themselves and their children. They worked in concert with northern philanthropists, many of whom were members of the Abolitionist movement, who funded activities to support African American education. They purchased and shipped books to the South, they built schools and trained teachers. In short, they built an entire system to educate Black people and poor whites that never existed before, from elementary school through university. The passion and drive of Black people to get their children educated, combined with the philanthropy of whites in the North, saw the birth of what today are HBCUs. ... "