The project was developed by Jacqueline Woodard-Smith in 2008, when she was a library assistant in the Reference and Archives Department. Her goal: to expand the library‘s small collection of Black local history. She held the first ―Pardon Me, Brother‖ AfricanAmerican Family History Day in August, 2008. The title of the project is taken from a song by Curtis Mayfield, ―We
the people who are darker than blue‖,released by Rhino Records in 1970
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Polly Neal
Polly Neal was the first African in Vermilion County. She arrived about 1832 with her former slave owner Abraham Sandusky (Sodusky), who she had…
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- Beeler Transfer
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news article on the Beeler Transfer and Storage | more »
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business photo of the Ike Stern Store Clerical Dept where Will Beeler worked in 1896 | more »
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Obituary for Alice Robinson, daughter of William H. Beeler
Danville Commercial- News
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- City Woman Dies at Home
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Obituary for Anna Beeler,
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