Hey Folks! This blog post is for you. I hope you’re having a great day and are ready to learn something about and listen to the voices of African American men who worked to build this country up and have never been shown any appreciation.
Throughout history, thousands of men and women desire to be talked about and shown some acknowledgment. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Barack Obama have been written about and talked about for some time now.
However, You will not know these names, but this post will educate you on our black men who are worthy of being the topics of discussion. It is a painful history and matter; nonetheless, it is my topic today.
I hope that this blog will enlighten you as well as be entertaining.
The first person I will showcase is :
Fountain Hughes, Age 101
Fountain Hughes, Age 101Fountain Hughes, circa 1952. Photograph courtesy of The Jeffersonian newspaper, Towson, Maryland.
Subsequently, Fountain Hughes lived a long time after gaining his freedom after the Civil War. According to the Census Reports, Mr. Hughes was 71 years old and married, living in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1920 census.
And then, in the 1930 census, he was 81 years old, living at 3201 Wyler Ave, Baltimore, MD; 1940 census, he was 91 years 0ld and working as a Gardner. His workweek was 40 hours, and he earned $400.00 a month.
In any case, Fountain Hughes died at the age of 109 years old in 1957. The obituary was dated July 5, 1957. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He left behind a daughter named Shallie Addison.
Fountain Hughes, Interview.
“You wasn’t no more than a dog to some of them in them days. You wasn’t treated as good as they treat dogs now. But still I didn’t like to talk about it. Because it makes, makes people feel bad you know. Uh, I, I could say a whole lot I don’t like to . And I won’t say a whole lot more.”
Listen to the rest of the narrative…
I want to say thanks so much for reading my blog post intro paragraph today.
Thanks again, and stay tuned because I’ll be talking about more African American history next week! Make sure to keep following my blog posts if you’re interested in learning more about these topics!
Source of Information:
Ancestry.Com census records
Library of Congress
Chicago citation style:
Norwood, Hermond, and Fountain Hughes. Interview with Fountain Hughes, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore, Maryland, November , 6, 1949. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1950037_afs09990a/.
APA citation style:
Norwood, H. & Hughes, F. (1949) Interview with Fountain Hughes, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore, Maryland, November , 6. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1950037_afs09990a/.