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Dr. Edith Irby Jones
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Thaddeus Kosciusko’s will declares freedom and education for slaves. -1798
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Civil Rights Act effective. -1960
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Pioneering medical physician Dr. Edith Irby Jones was born on December 23, 1927 to Mattie Buice Irby, a maid and Robert Irby, a farmer. As a child, Jones witnessed her older sister die due to a typhoid epidemic and was encouraged to pursue a career as a medical physician. She attended Langston Elementary School and Langston Secondary School both in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In 1944, Jones’ high school teacher helped her obtain a scholarship to attend Knoxville College in Knoxville, TN where she majored in chemistry, biology and physics. While at Knoxville College, Jones was an active member of the Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society and was initiated into the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. In addition, Jones was a member of the debate team, pep squad, drama club and the YMCA. In 1948, nine years before the “Little Rock Nine” integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Jones became the first African-American admitted to the University of Arkansas College of Medicine. Although she was not provided with the same housing, dining or bathroom facilities as White students, Jones received support from her high school alumni, neighbors and a Black-owned local newspaper, The Arkansas State-Press.
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Birmingham Demonstration takes place. -1963
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Black Panther “Chicago Seven” indictment dropped. -1970
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Georgia, South Carolina & Florida slaves freed. -1862
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Former-Louisiana Governor, Pinckney B.S. Pinchback was born. He became the first Black to ever serve as governor. -1837
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BTW students’ make it to the HISD, Name That Book Finals competition. Page 6
Highlights from: Acres of Angels, Acres Home Meet the Market & Bencheri’ Educational Center
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Dr. Carol Surles becomes first African-American president of Texas Women’s University in Denton. -1994
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The Standard View By Billy “Hollywood” Groves
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e the citizens of Crockett, are very proud of our own, Dr. Ianthia Fisher. Dr. Fisher is a longtime educator, Minister, Groves Standard Newspaper Managing Editor, a successful mother, community leader, wife and a woman of God with a vision. Currently she is running for Mayor of Crockett, making her the first African-American female to seek this position. Everyone that I’ve spoken with, about Dr. Fisher’s campaign, has spoken positive about her and told me they would be voting for her. These people whom I’ve spoken with were citizens of Crockett all of different races and backgrounds. They believe in Dr. Fisher’s vision for the future success of everyone in this city. Jimmy, Dr. Fisher’s husband of 38-years, was the first African-American to become Police Chief in Crockett. He was put in the position by Elmer Murray, Crockett’s first African-American mayor Dr. Fisher is a graduate of Crockett High School, Sam Houston State Uni-
versity and Texas Southern University; she is also the mother of three successful grown children and is an Associate Minister at New Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church. The late Sis. Earlie Groves, her mother, was her mentor who inspired and directed her to become the lady she is today. Her sisters, Dr. Helen King of Huntsville, Dr. Brenda Atchison of Dallas, Victoria Essien and Dr. Ruth Groves
Antman because when she was little she was always “doing the right thing”, like a child super hero and a true role model. Dr. Fisher has been coordinating and successfully administering the Houston County Juneteenth Celebration for over three decades, which key focus is surrounded around the involvement of young people. As part of the Juneteenth Celebration, following the parade everyone assembles at the Groves Education-
Groves Educational Foundation, standing on the principle of “Building Bridges…Not Walls!” l-r Dr. Helen King, Dr. Ianthia Fisher, Dr. Ruth Groves Watson-Houston & Dr. Brenda Atchison, Victoria Essien , M.Ed. Watson-Houston both of Houston and her brother Billy “Hollywood” Groves are all proud of her. She has always been a strong lady who loved God, her family, friends and people that she has encountered throughout her life. Growing up, we had a nickname inside the family for Dr. Fisher, it was “Antman”. We called her
al Foundation located on MLK Blvd. and concludes the day with activities and fellowship. The Groves Educational Foundation, the host for this event is a non-profit organization founded by the Groves Family. I can tell you, without a doubt, that Dr. Fisher through her hard work and dedicated commitment to
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this city and county, has truly impacted Crockett and East Texas in a positive way, and will continue to help others in the future. Crockett’s current African-American City Council members: Marquita Beasley, Darrell Jones and Ernest Jackson are all performing their jobs at a very high level with definitely a constructive impact on the city. Special thanks go out to Crockett Economic and Industrial Corporation (CEIDC), James Gentry and the CEIDC Board of Directors and their President, Dr. I. Fisher. They have been doing a masterful job of bringing companies and jobs to Crockett and East Texas. OnShore Technology Services is the latest business to come to Crockett. I can proudly say, all over East Texas I am seeing changes I have never seen before in the political and business environment’s, with majority of the changes for the better! A big thank you to Lufkin residents Mike “Heavy Luv” Jones, Cam Benton, Maria Soprano, Ross Byrd and the Ken Houston Family! Community activist and media voice James Smith of Palestine, has been helping African-Americans throughout East Texas for years. Continue Reading Online aframnews.com
State of Black Texas in the Texas Legislature By Senator Borris Miles
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ast week, the governor signed House Bill 826, to create the University of Houston College of Medicine. This new institution will have a tremendous impact in Houston and our community. The University of Houston (UH) is situated in the heart of Third Ward. Its main campus is a stone’s throw away from some of the most medically underserved areas of Houston. Many of these communities have some of the highest numbers of residents with poor health in Houston. Texas has a doctor shortage, specifically primary care physicians. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, Texas ranks 47 out of 50 states in having enough physicians to serve its populations. In Houston, the shortage of primary care physicians will grow by more than 250 percent over the next 12 years, according to projections by the Department of State Health Services. Continue Reading Online aframnews.com
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By Rebecca S. Jones “The more land and wealth one owns, the more security one has and the more independent he will be.” - The John Riley Sadberry Philosophy HOUSTON - From this philosophy, John Riley Sadberry built an empire dating back to over a century ago. For he went from slavery to sharecropping; from sharecropping to establishing the Sadberry Farm on 3,000 acres of land. The Sadberry Farm is an extensive ranch operation which includes cattle, cotton, pecans, fruit orchards, sheep, goats, hay and produce. However, that was only one accomplishment. While some seek wealth and possession for personal gain, John Riley was equipped with a selfless and benevolent spirit. In all his years of acquiring land, he never forgot his humble beginnings in Christ. To this end, John Riley donated the land for the Wilson Chapel Church, the Wilson Chapel Cemetery (a cemetery which holds marked and unmarked graves of tenants and sharecroppers on the Sadberry farm) and the Mount Peavy School (later known as, the Couch School and later renamed, the Wilson Chapel School). John Riley Sadberry: From Slave to Philanthropy John Riley Sadberry was birthed into an era of slavery in McClinton County, Texas. His last name was inherited from his father, who obtained it from a Sadberry slave owner.
Though John Riley’s biological father passed prior to his birth, God had already provisioned a devout Baptist Pastor to fulfill the paternal void. As such, John Riley was reared in a religious environment by his mother and stepfather, Cilla and Elder Eaton. It was his Christian upbringing that laid the foundation upon which he built his entire life and family. Like many Blacks of his day, John Riley had very little education. During his youth, he worked in the fields to help provide for the rest of the family, consisting of one brother and three sisters. He quickly developed a reputation for being “industrious” and “thrifty”. While working for Mr. H.B. Steele, a Brazos County merchant and farmer; John Riley saved nearly every cent he earned. Eventually, he worked himself up from a day-hand to a share-cropper on the Charlie Davis farm in Brazos County; from a share-cropper, he worked himself up to a renter, owning his team and the appropriate equipment needed for farming. Over time, he found favor in the daughter of Charles and Dolly Smith, a prominent family in Burleson County and land owners in the Teals Prairie Community. He went on to marry Alice Smith and they started a family in Brazos County. At the time, he and his new bride were living on the Charlie Davis farm he worked on. Not desiring to raise his
COVER STORY children on a White plantation; an ambitious and independent John Riley took a leap of faith and purchased thirty acres of land in Burleson County, in the Teals Prairie Community. To the normal eye, the land appeared wooded and undeveloped, how-
Burleson County, where he served on the Trustee Board; he also served on the Trustee Board of the Public School for a number of years. Remaining true to his philosophy, he continued to buy even more land. But, not having the latitude around him, he
Daughters: Candace, Pamela & Daphne with Charles & Carolyn. ever, John Riley saw a greater vision. With his industrious wife working alongside him, they cultivated the land, worked in the fields and raised their ten children for a number of years on those thirty-acres. John Riley went on to buy more land, until he became the owner of over 400 acres in the County. A respected leader in the community, John Riley was a member of New Hope Baptist Church in
moved his family from Burleson to Robertson County in 1896. There, he continued on buying and improving land, until he became the owner of more than 3,000 Texas acres. Robertson County became the permanent dwelling place for John Riley and Alice to continue raising and educating their children on up to adulthood. The Sadberrys emerged into the epitome of success for Blacks in that
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era. John Riley mentored scores of young Black men and families in the art of entrepreneurship. People from all walks of life admired his prophetic wisdom and insightful philosophies. A few of his philosophies have been noted as: “ A job that is worth doing is a job worth doing right, the hardest thing about any job is getting started; regardless of the crisis you may be in, remember that someone else is in a little worse condition than you are; buying the best is the cheapest in a long run.” Furthermore he would often say, “The time to pay a debt is when you got the money; not how much money one may make, but what he saves is what counts; not how much money one may make, but how wisely he spends it” and “A lazy person would never get ahead, hard work is honest and should bot be evaded, if one hopes to succeed.” On August 5, 1926, John Riley departed this walk of life leaving behind his wife and offspring: John Riley, Jr. (Eliza Sheets), Charles (Haley Lawson), Heslip Riley (Lillie Mae Mazy), Nettie (Sushel Lawson, Sr. & Henry Sheets), Minnie (Austin Cashaw & Fletcher Jones), Beulah (Ernest Sheets & William Thomas), Rev. Reuben (Euretta Mazy), Sedalia (Richard Williams), Johnnie (Rev. Otis King) and Lola Mae (Rev. J. F. Sargent) Sadberry. Two years after his passing, Alice Smith Sadberry passed away with her ten children surviving her.
Heslip Riley Sadberry: A Growing Tradition “Think how best to do the task, feed the stock and they will feed you; try to turn a helping hand, things others do, I can do and do them better; let’s go to glitting while the weather is fitting.” - Heslip R. Sadberry Heslip Riley Sadberry assumed the leadership role in connection with the Wilson and Benchley community, after his parents passing. As it was, Heslip married Lillie Mazy in 1911, in Burleson County. At that time, the parents of the bride and groom presented the newlyweds with a team of mules as wedding gifts. With this team of mules as a beginning, Heslip and Lillie, following in the footsteps of their parents, became successful farmers. According to the Sadberry’s family history, Heslip’s enthusiasm as a farmer led him to till the soil to make it produce above average growths in various fruits, vegetables, nuts, oats and cotton. Inheriting the “gift of gab” from his father, he and his family, frequently travelled the country as he lectured to farmers and civic and political groups. On one occasion, he lectured on the abolition of open stock laws in Robertson County. Fortunately, he was blessed to see passage of this law become a reality.Heslip and Lillie both made remarkable strides during their lifetime. Continue Reading Online aframnews.com
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Race and Reading: Reviving the Reluctant Reader By Nikitra Hamilton, BA, M.Ed., MLS
Booker T. Washington made it to the HISD 2019 Name That Book Finals Competition! HOUSTON - To truly understand the state of literacy in today’s United States, we need to go back to the beginning. Literacy has long been used as a method of social control and oppression. Throughout much of history, the ability to read was something only privileged, upper-class White men were allowed to learn. School wasn’t free, and education was provided to only a select few. This preserved a class system that kept the poor powerless and the rich powerful—a practice that continues today. According to the Smithsonian, after the slave revolt of 1831, all slave states except Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee passed laws that made it illegal to teach slaves to read and write. The Alabama Slave Code of 1833 included this following law: “Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read or write, shall upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.” That was a whole lot of money in 1833. Why were they so concerned about slaves learning to read? Because if slaves learned to read, they could access information. They could read
newspapers. They could read books and understand their rights. They could organize and rise up against the institution of slavery. Slave owners wanted to keep their slaves uneducated and powerless because they understood that literacy represents power. Race and reading has been a topic that has been avoided by majority of the population for many
March 2019. Our students were not only required to comprehend the titles, but they were required to become so familiar with the satire, genre, characters, and plot; that from a single quote, they would be able to NAME THAT BOOK! We understood that this was not an easy feat, so our students took the challenge seriously! First, they were instructed on strategy. They needed to
l-r Ms. Hamilton, Alexa Hillary, Rebeckah Hodge , Brianna Smith, Dinesty Moore, Fadra Waller & Latrice Hammond. reasons. Why? Because it addresses the inequities and the bias that African-Americans have experienced systemically for years. This reality can be disheartening unless one believes in the power of hope and restoration. So, how do we at Booker T. Washington take these negative statistics, and turn them into positive actions? We challenged our students to read 32 books from November 2018 until
understand the fact that our high school had never competed, they needed to understand that they had minimal time to read versus the other high schools, and they had to believe that winning was possible even with all the odds stacked against them! But, even more than that, we had personal conversations about the power of reading, we took the time to understand the history of why African-Americans were de-
nied access to books, and we had to understand how reading was and remains the main tool that can create freedom, knowledge, and power. Armed with this information, we gathered with our team of six students: Fadra Waller, Dinesty Moore, Latrice Hammond, Rebeckah Hodge , Brianna Smith and Alexa Hillary. We read, read, read, and analyzed, analyzed, and analyzed. You get the point…. We placed 2nd in the Preliminaries and had a neck to neck score (13-10) against Carnegie High School! Booker T. Washington made it to the finals in our very first reading competition! We got 12 out of the 24 questions correct in the Finals as well and placed 5th! “I really wanted to win!” stated Rebeckah Hodge, “but, I feel so good about coming to the competition, I didn’t even know a competition like this existed, I can’t wait until next year”! “Ms. H, it’s war,” exclaimed Dinesty Moore, “Can we get our books earlier next year, and maybe even read them over the summer?!?” Mrs. Casey Whitney, our campus NTB Co-sponsor (previous HISD graduate and reading club member) stated, “I love that our students are now being associated with both athletics and academics; this is a BIG DEAL”! Continue Reading Online aframnews.com
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Afterwards, she received an internship at the University Hospital in Little Rock. In Arkansas, Jones practiced medicine and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement before moving with her family to Texas in 1958. In 1959, Jones began her residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals, but the hospital that she was assigned to segregated her, limiting her patient rosters. She completed
the first woman to be elected president of the National Medical Association, and in 1986, she led the United States Task Force on Health to Haiti where the medical and healthcare infrastructure were examined and potential solutions for the impoverished nation were explored. In 1986, Edith Irby Jones Day was proclaimed by the City of Houston and in 1988 she was named Internist of the Year by the American Society of Internal Medicine. She was one of the
Dr. Edith Irby & Myra Jones (Daughter) the last months of her resifounders of Mercy Hospital in Houston and one of the 12 dency at Freedman’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., physician owners and develand in 1963, she received an opers of the Park Plaza Hosacademic appointment as a pital. Jones also supervised clinical assistant professor of residents at the University medicine at the Baylor Colof Texas Health Science Center and was active on lege of Medicine. On May 4, 1979, Jones’ the board of Planned Parachievements were recogenthood and the Houston School Board. nized by the State of ArkanIn 1997, the Edith Irby sas, and she was honored Jones M.D. Hospital was with the founding of the anopened in Houston. Later, nual celebration of Edith Irby in 2001, Jones was named in Jones Day. Black Enterprise Magazine’s That following year, she selection of 101 leading Black became a founding member physicians in America. of the Association of Black She has Reading received Online numerCardiologists IncorporatContinue ed. In 1985, Jones became aframnews.com
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