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 I SURE MISS MY AMAZING STUDENTS AND THE WONDERFUL TIMES WE SHARED IN THE FIVE YEARS I SERVED AS FOUNDER AND CHAPTER ADVISOR FOR BPA!!! Originally posted by  tsmithjohnson at I LOVE B.P.A. MEMORIES: J. FRANK DOBIE MIDDLE SCHOOL B. P. A. MEMORIES 2009
THIS MORNING, I CLICKED ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE AND THIS WAS THE FIRST THING I SAW...HOW COOL...THIS IS A PICTURE OF ONE OF MY B.P.A. CHAPTERS AT JAMES FRANK DOBIE MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IN AUSTIN, TEXAS... 2009 BPA MEMBERS: JACQUES, CHARLENE, ARTURO, RICARDO, JUAN CARLOS, DARIUS, PEDRO, ERICA, SHAQUAILLE, JONTRAY, DESIREE, OLGA, AND MINH ARE STANDING. , GEVON, KRYSTINIQUE, AND ASHLEY ARE SITTING********************************** WHAT A GREAT MEMORY TO" SHARE...THESE ARE THE MEMBERS OF MY BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS OF AMERICA (BPA)...THE NO. 1 RANKED STUDENT BUSINESS ORGANIZATION IN THE U.S.; OUR CHAPTER NAME WAS THE "DOBIE DISTINGUISHED DIPLOMATS"; THESE WERE OUTSTANDING STUDENTS...THEY RECEIVED LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS...JACQUES CAMPBELL (STANDING IN FRONT OF ME IN ORANGE SHIRT) AND MINH NGUYEN (STANDING IN LOWER RIGHT FRONT CORNER IN WHITE HOODIE AND BACKPACK) ADVANCED TO THE NATIONAL B.P.A. CONFERENCE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; SO WE FLEW THERE...THEY COMPETED AGAINST MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM ACROSS AMERICA AND RETURNED TO AUSTIN AS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS...JACQUES IN "EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING" AND MINH IN "COMPUTER KEYBOARDING"!! I AM SO PROUD OF ALL OF MY BPA MEMBERS; JUST FOR BEING BRAVE ENOUGH TO COMPETE IN THIRTEEN (13) DIFFERENT EVENTS...INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR IN GROUPS...THEY HAD NEVER COMPETED ACADEMICALLY BEFORE...I FOUNDED MY FIRST CHAPTER IN 2007...THIS IS MY 2010=2011 CHAPTER...I WAS JOINED BY MR ELLIS EVANS, TECHNOLOGY ED. TEACHER AT J. FRANK DOBIE MS IN 2009; AND WE CONTINUED UNTIL WE BOTH RETIRED IN MAY 2012; BOTH WITH OVER 20 YEARS OF TEACHING....MY LAST TWELVE (12) YEARS (2000 -2012) WERE AT DOBIE..... AND LOVING THE OUTSTANDING, AMAZING, COURAGEOUS, LOVING, INQUISITIVE, KIND, GENEROUS, SWEET, AND BEAUTIFUL, MULTI-CULTURAL AUSTIN ISD STUDENTS! 
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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at BLACK HISTORY MONTH TRIBUTE: MARY FIELDS, FIRST BLACK FEMALE U.S. STAR ROUTE MAIL CARRIER
Mary Fields - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Sepia-tone photograph of Mary Fields, holding a rifle
Mary Fields, c. 1895
Born c. 1832
Hickman County, Tennessee
Died 1914
Great Falls, Montana
Occupations: Freighter, Cook, Domestic Worker, Star Route Mail Carrier
Known for First African-American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier
in the United States. Mary Fields  obtained the star route contract for the delivery of U. S. mail from Cascade, Montana to Saint Peter's Mission in 1885. She drove the route with horse and wagon, not a stagecoach, for two four-year contracts: from 1885 to 1889 and from 1889 to 1903. Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. This enabled USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African American woman star route Mail Carrier in the United States.[3]Biography Born a slave in Hickman County, Tennessee, around 1832,  Fields was freed when American slavery was outlawed in 1865.[4][5]  In 1884, Mother Amadeus was sent to Montana Territory to establish a school for Native American girls at St. Peter's Mission,  west of Cascade. Learning that Amadeus was stricken with pneumonia, Fields hurried to Montana to nurse her back to health. Amadeus recovered and Fields stayed at St. Peter's hauling freight, doing laundry, growing vegetables, tending chickens, repairing buildings and eventually becoming the forewoman.[4]The Native Americans called Fields "White Crow" because "she acts like a white woman but has black skin." Local whites did not know what to make of her. One schoolgirl wrote an essay saying: "she drinks whiskey, and she swears, and she is a republican, which makes her a low, foul creature." In 1894, after several complaints and an incident with a disgruntled male subordinate that involved gunplay,[2] the bishop ordered her to leave the convent. Mother Amadeus helped her open a restaurant in nearby Cascade. Fields would serve food to anyone, whether they could pay or not, and the restaurant went broke in about ten months.
Fields was a respected public figure in Cascade, and on her birthday each year the town closed its schools to celebrate.[4] When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption.
At seventy-one, Mary Fields retired from star route mail carrier service in 1903. She continued to babysit many Cascade children and owned and operated a laundry service from her home.[3]Death and legacy Fields died in 1914, at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls, but she was buried outside Cascade.[7] In 1959, actor and Montana native Gary Cooper wrote an article for Ebony in which he said: "Born a slave somewhere in Tennessee, Mary lived to become one of the freest souls ever to draw a breath, or a .38!"***************************************************************************************** I am Mary Fields.
People call me "Black Mary."
People call me "Stagecoach Mary."
I live in Cascade, Tennessee.
I am six feet tall.
I weigh over two hundred pounds.
A woman of the 19th Century,
I do bold and exciting things.
I wear pants.
I smoke a big black cigar.
I drink whiskey.
I carry a pistol.
I love adventure.
I travel the country,
driving a stagecoach,
delivering the mail to distant towns.
Strong, I fight through rainstorms.
Tough, I fight through snowstorms.
I risk hurricanes and tornadoes.
I am independent.
No body tells me what to do.
No body tells me where to go.
When I'm not delivering mail,
I like to build buildings.
I like to smoke and drink in bars with the men.
I like to be rough.
I like to be rowdy.
I also like to be loving.
I like to be caring.
I like to baby sit.
I like to plant flowers and tend my garden.
I like to give away corsages and bouquets.
I like being me, Mary Fields.
****************************************************************** Films In the 1976 TV documentary South by Northwest, "Homesteaders", Fields is played by Esther Rolle. In the 1996 TV movie The Cherokee Kid, Fields is played by Dawnn Lewis.
In the 2012 TV movie Hannah's Law, she is played by Kimberly Elise.[8][9][10]
In the short western, They Die By Dawn (2013), Fields is played by Erykah Badu.[11] Television Fields appears as a character in five season 5 episodes of the television show Hell on Wheels, played by Amber Chardae Robinson.[12][13] Music Fields is the subject of Michael Hearst's song "Stagecoach Mary", as part of his Extraordinary People project.[14]
Fields is also the subject of a song, "The Ballad of Mary Fields" by Mary McGuinness, on her CD "Places In Between. References Jump up ^ Shirley, Gayle C. (2011) More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women, 2nd Ed. Globe Pequot Press: Guilford, Conn. p.5 ISBN 978-0-7627-6692-5
^ Jump up to: a b Cooper, Gary and Marc Crawford (October 1959) "Stagecoach Mary". EBONY Magazine. reprinted Oct. 1977. p. 98
^ Jump up to: a b c d Metcalf McConnell, Miantae, "Mary Fields's Road to Freedom" Black Cowboys in the American West, On the Range, On the Stage, Behind the Badge, (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016),156. Metcalf McConnell, Miantae, Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History, (Huzzah Publishing, 2016).
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Drewry, Jennifer M. (March–April 1999). "Mary Fields a pioneer in Cascade's past". Cascade Montana Community Website. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b "Mary Fields". Legends of America. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
Jump up ^ "History of San Antonio, Florida". sanantoniofla.com.
Jump up ^ Franks, James A. (2000). Mary Fields (Black Mary) (1st ed.). Santa Cruz, Calif.: Wild Goose Press. ISBN 0965717348.
Jump up ^ "South by Northwest". Washington State University. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ "The Cherokee Kid". IMDb. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Hannah's Law". IMDb. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
Jump up ^ They Die By Dawn. 2013.
Jump up ^ "Amber Charade Robinson". IMDb. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ Hell on Wheels. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ Hearst, Michael. "Stagecoach Mary". Extraordinary People. Current Mood: accomplished Current Location: United States, Texas, Austin |
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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at BLACK HISTORY MONTH TRIBUTE: REV DR WILLIAM J BARBER: The 11th Annual Moral March on Raleigh
February 11th, 2017 - Fusion Films had eight cameras on location to cover the record-breaking crowd in the tens of thousands that made up the 11th Annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People's Assembly. Coalition partners spoke passionately to their issues and Moral Monday architect, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II delivered powerful charges both at the pre-march rally and post-march People's Assembly reminding North Carolina - and the nation - that in response to the current, immoral and regressive, political climate, standing down is not an option!Current Location: United States, Texas, Austin Current Mood: accomplished |
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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at BLACK HISTORY MONTH TRIBUTE: His Words Silenced The All-White City Council and Police Chief
CALEB STEPHENS SPEAKS FROM HIS HEART TO POWER ABOUT "BLACK LIVES MATTER"....
His Words Silenced The All White City Council and Police Chief on the Black Lives Matter Issue!!
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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at FEBRUARY 2017: BLACK HISTORY MONTH TRIBUTE TO FAMOUS BLACK TEXANS: SCOTT JOPLIN (1868 - 1917) Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at FEBRUARY 2017: BLACK HISTORY MONTH TRIBUTE TO FAMOUS BLACK TEXANS: SCOTT JOPLIN (1868 - 1917)
BLACK HISTORY MONTH TRIBUTES TO TEXAS NATIVES: SCOTT JOPLINScott Joplin
(1868-1917) Scott Joplin,  the "King of Ragtime" music, was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He moved with his family to Texarkana at the age of about seven.
Even at this early age, Joplin demonstrated his extraordinary talent for music. Encouraged by his parents, he was already proficient on the banjo, and was beginning to play the piano. By age eleven and under the tutelage of Julius Weiss, he was learning the finer points of harmony and style. As a teenager, he worked as a dance musician.
After several years as an itinerant pianist playing in saloons and brothels throughout the Midwest, he settled in St. Louis about 1890.  There he studied and led in the development of a music genre now known as ragtime--a unique blend of European classical styles combined with African American harmony and rhythm.
In 1893, Joplin played in sporting areas adjacent to the Colombian Exposition in Chicago, and the following year moved to Sedalia, Missouri. From there, he toured with his eight-member Texas Medley Quartette as far east as Syracuse, New York. One of his first compositions, The Great Crush Collision, was inspired by a spectacular railroad locomotive crash staged near Waco, Texas in September of 1896 (see Crash at Crush).
In the late 1890s, Joplin worked at the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, which provided the title for his best known composition, the Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899. This was followed a few years later by The Entertainer, another well known Joplin composition. Over the next fifteen years, Joplin added to his already impressive repertoire, which eventually totaled some sixty compositions. In 1911, Joplin moved to New York City, where he devoted his energies to the production of his operatic work, Treemonisha, the first grand opera composed by an African American. At the time, however, this resulted unsuccessfully.
After suffering deteriorating health due to syphilis that he contracted some years earlier, Joplin died on April 1, 1917 in Manhattan State Hospital. Although Joplin's music was popular and he received modest royalties during his lifetime,  he did not receive recognition as a serious composer for more than fifty years after his death. Then, in 1973, his music was featured in the motion picture, The Sting, which won and Academy Award for its film score. Three years later, in 1976, Joplin's opera Treemonisha won the coveted Pulitzer Prize.
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Note: Each of Joplin's musical compositions referenced in this article
can be played in midi format from our Songs of Texas webpage.
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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at Eyes On The Prize - (Part 1) Awakenings 1954–1956Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at Eyes On The Prize - (Part 1) Awakenings 1954–1956
THIS IS THE FIRST OF FOURTEEN (14) VIDEOS ON THE OUTSTANDING SHOWS CALLED "EYES ON THE PRIZE"
ABOUT BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY AND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS FROM 1950s TO THE 1980s....
Part 1: The Awakenings 1954–1956 chronicles the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi
and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama.
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Originally posted by tsmithjohnson at ANCESTRY ANTHOLOGY: PLANTATION OWNERS #7: WILLIAM BONNER - 112 SLAVES - FREESTONE COUNTYOriginally posted by tsmithjohnson at ANCESTRY ANTHOLOGY: PLANTATION OWNERS #7: WILLIAM BONNER - 112 SLAVES - FREESTONE COUNTY
BONNER, WILLIAM (1783–1877). William Bonner, early settler and planter, was born in Abbeville District, South Carolina, on April 16, 1783, the son of James and Mary (Laird) Bonner. As a young man he worked as a wagoner hauling goods between Abbeville and Charleston. During the War of 1812 he served in the South Carolina militia and rose to the rank of lieutenant. On March 27, 1816, he married Ann Lee Joel of Charleston, with whom he had eleven children. In 1818 Bonner and his family moved to Monroe County, Alabama, and later to Wilcox County. During this period he began accumulating considerable wealth and put his younger siblings through school. ********** WILLIAM BONNER HOME IN FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE, TEXAS, USA 
In the early 1850s he moved to Texas and settled on Tehuacana Creek in Freestone County. 
DR. JOHN BONNER
Between 1854 and 1858 he and his brother, Dr. John Bonner, acquired large tracts of land in the area.   
By 1860 he owned 112 slaves and $104,920 in real property and was reportedly the wealthiest man in Freestone County. That year his plantation produced 900 bushels of corn and ninety-eight bales of cotton. 
Bonner was a devout Presbyterian who played an important role in the affairs of the church and was one of the organizers of the Harmony Hill Church at Steward's Mill in October 1876. He and his large extended family were also prominent in local affairs and helped build many of Freestone County's early roads.
Bonner died at his home in Freestone County on July 1, 1877, and was buried in the Bonner family cemetery near Steward's Mill. In 1970 a Texas historical marker was placed at the gravesite. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989). Marker Files, Texas Historical Commission, Austin.
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