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Exercise their right to vote and participate in North Carolina politics and support the Republican party that had freed them. Democrats were enraged at this sudden change and loss of power in the state. You see at the time, the Democratic party to most was the party of white supremacy. Prior to the end of the civil war, North Carolina had 5 straight Democratic governors. And it was a democratic governor named John Willis Ellis, who urged the state to follow its southern neighbors and secede from the union in May of 1861. During this period, the Democratic party was the dominant political force in the southern states, and they sought to regain control of North Carolina from the fusionist Coalition. Now the fusionist movement was an alliance between the Republican party and the populist party, which had gained considerable support from African American voters and white farmers. But we'll talk about that a little later. In today's day and age, I feel like there is so much to worry about, especially financially. How are we gonna buy food? How are we gonna pay rent? How are we gonna pay mortgage? Can we even pay a mortgage? Because can we even afford a house? There's so much to worry about. And I feel like we should be welcoming things that can alleviate the financial strain that we go through on a day to day basis. Life doesn't happen biweekly, so why should payday? The money you earn can be in your hands today with earning. Earning is an app that gives you access to your pay as you work up to a $100 per day or up to $750 per pay period. Just download the earning app and verify your paycheck. Then access up to a $100 a day as you work and leave an optional tip. Any money you access plus tips are automatically repaid from your next paycheck. Download earning today spelled e a r n I n in the Google Play or Apple App Store. When you download the earning app, type in redacted underscore podcasts when you sign up. It'll really help the show redacted_ podcast.
Rosemary was going to enter the world next. Rosemary's first few minutes of life were tumultuous. When her mother went into labor, the doctor was busy attending to other patients. During this time, the country was experiencing the Spanish flu, so he was needed elsewhere. Rose was instructed to wait for the doctor as long as she could. But this baby was coming. Rose was told to keep her legs closed tight together. At one point, it is said that Rosemary was even pushed back up the birth canal until the doctor arrived 2 hours later. Rose was excited to have a girl. Part of the reason why she was named Rose Marie in her mother's honor. But this perfectionist slowly started to see that her daughter was a little different. She was not hitting developmental milestones at the same rate as her previous children. Rose was concerned, but she was hopeful that her daughter would catch up. Concerned turned into full worry by the time she had her next two daughters, Kathleen and Eunice. They were both surpassing Rosemary in certain developmental areas. The family tried everything. Tutors, switching schools, and plenty of prayer. They thought that if they pushed her, she would rise to the occasion. Perhaps it was just denial. We see this even today. A child is diagnosed with developmental issues, autism or ADHD, and denial immediately sets in in a lot of families. Parents believe that by giving their children extra accommodations, they are stifling them. But many educators would advise against this sentiment. Rosemary would have gone on to live a completely different life if her parents recognized and used the right tools to help her advance. But since ableism and ignorance got in the way, nothing helped Rosemary reach her full potential. Rosemary was diagnosed with mental retardation. Of course, we know that term is outdated and heavily taboo. Regardless, Rosemary did have an intellectual disability. The severity of her disability is said to have been exaggerated.
Tomorrow and host the experts, authors and executives that understand them. Tune in for insights, a long term perspective on investing, and of course, stock ideas, plenty of them. To quote a listener, it pays to listen. Check us out and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Around her adolescent years, life got even harder for Josephine. Her mother basically disowned her. She spent a lot of times doing odd jobs, sleeping on street corners, dancing on the street for money, you name it. At the age of 12, she officially dropped out of school and at the age of 13, she was married to the discontent of her mother. Let me say that again. At the age of 13, she was married. She was married to a man named Willie Wells who was damn near 30 years old and they met at a chauffeur's club. It was around this time that Josephine found escape in music, dancing and performing. She would escape to the black owned theater in town dancing in the rafters, practicing and daydreaming of when she would be one of the girls on stage. She spent her time mimicking all the moves, obsessing over the dresses and the feathers. She wanted it so badly. It was at this time she became even more discontent with her life in Saint Louis. She no longer wanted to work for white people. She experienced sexual assault for a man that she was working for a local man in town. And it turned out that her happiness or whatever she found with Willie was short lived along with their marriage. They married in 1919 and they divorced in 1919. After her divorce from Willie, the predator, she found her place in her first traveling band. She married her second husband, Howard Baker, in 1921 at the age of 15. This was actually her first legal marriage because in Saint Louis at the time, you couldn't get married at the age of 13. Duh. 15 is still no better. But she and mister Baker would eventually divorce a few years later but she kept his last name for the rest of her life. She eventually convinced the show manager in Saint Louis
Time reading the bible, praying, meditating, fasting and dreaming of something different. Now, the relationship with enslaved people and the Bible and Christianity and religion as a whole is complicated in the way that we see it in present day. The Bible is often referenced as a key text in keeping people enslaved. But seldom do we hear about stories like this one, where the Bible sparked ideas of freedom from bondage. But, because Nat could read it for himself, he saw the truth in messages like the story of Moses freeing his people in Exodus. In 18/21, Nat ran away from his plantation. He had been beaten badly and had enough. He spent about a month in the woods surviving on next to nothing. While in the woods, he would experience what he described as one of his first visions from God. Although he was effectively living as a free man, God told him that he should return to his plantation to serve his earthly master. Back on the plantation, he performed all of his regular duties once he returned. He became a husband and a father. His wife is believed to have been a woman named Cherry. The exact number of children they had or if this was even his wife's name remain disputed. The widely accepted consensus is that they had 2 children who survived into adulthood. Being married while enslaved was complicated to say the very least. Parenting had its own set of challenges. You never knew when your husband, wife, or children could be sold off, killed, or raped. Sometimes, right in front of you. As with many couples, Nat and Cherry were split up and worked at different plantations after Samuel, their second owner, died. The silver lining was that at least they were still somewhat close by. But, more importantly, he continued to study the Bible and preach to others. He truly believed that he was a prophet. And as such,
Members of society. There were times that Coretta worked tirelessly in the field to help support the family. They grew their own food and took care of their cows. At this time, school was not free past the 6th grade, so she also earned 60¢ for picking a £100 of cotton for another farm, about $10 a day. Back then, she had a reputation for being mean and not straying from a fight as she needed to. As she grew up, she became more and more determined to change things in a positive way. I'm sure no one would blame her if she grew up and had a hardened heart or feelings of hopelessness. But that wasn't in her nature. That wasn't how she and her siblings were raised. She prayed and meditated a lot which gave her inner peace. She graduated from high school valedictorian, but her graduating class was only about 18 people. She was headed off to college, a smart person, but with many more lessons to learn. She wouldn't follow in her sister's footsteps. She got accepted into Antioch College in Ohio on a full scholarship. Antioch was an integrated school. Coretta's college experience was about to shape and develop so many of her ideologies that she would carry on further into her life. When she arrived, she realized that she wasn't as prepared in certain areas as she had hoped for the next chapter of her life. She even had to take classes that offered more educational assistance to get her up to speed. She majored in elementary education and minored in voice. In college, Coretta was exposed to so many different types of races, ethnicities, nationalities, and religions. And she wouldn't just go to school with white people, she would live with them. And during this time, she would even date a white Jewish boy. The relationship did come to a close once they realized that they wouldn't be able to make it work under the current racial climate at the time. But this experience opened her eyes to a different type of white person. It solidified a fact that she already had carried in her heart that not all white people were bad, even though the ones she grew up with treated her family like they were less than human.
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