My husband's paternal great grandfather, F.H. Crumbly, aka Floyd H. Crumbly, was an extraordinary man of color at the turn of the 20th Century and during its early years. Here are a few pieces of history to support that claim and to remind us that the event of slavery is not our catalyst of history, rather but an event. We were and we are and we shall always be a people imbued with strength, determination, vision, power and genius - whether given a fair opportunity or not!
From entering the world as the son of a free woman and a slave (who himself became one of the first African Americans to serve on a congressional committee following the civil war) to earning the rank of Lt. Col. in the Spanish American War, from becoming one of Atlanta's first most distinguished business men to one of its founders of African American based charitable, financial, social, business and religious organizations, to making his way to Los Angeles to become a publisher and a key founder of the African-American YMCA and NAACP chapters there - Floyd Henry Crumbly made an indelible mark on history.
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That link to Allison Dorsey's book really helped me... I've been improving the History of Atlanta article at Wikipedia and it was enormous help with regard to the black history right after the Civil War.
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