In this workshop series, we tell our family’s stories. Stories until now, concealed, untold and secret. Our stories are America's story and the story of race that has resonance for today. We are proud to share our black family stories to help us understand how what happened years ago still plays out today. By telling our stories of race and racism, we help to enhance the story of race in America today. Relax and enjoy as this blog unfolds the Wong family stories.
Quaker Slaves in the New World
Free Black People in antebellum North Carolina
Black Pioneers
Black land deeds (in the Smithsonian) first owners of land on the Indiana Frontier
The Beech Settlement
Loss of property through taxes
The last black man in Carthage Indiana
Buffalo Soldiers fighting Poncho Villa on Arizona’s Border
The segregated army
Mulattoes and interracial marriage
Passing
No GI Bill for Black GI’s
Redlining
Segregation
Busing
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Immigration and Deportation
First “White” then “Mexican.”
The Wealth Gap
Reparations and the right to be made whole