Category: circa 1850-1900

Junuar Wake in the news

Junuar Wake in the news

Some tidbits from a scanned newspaper from 1971 discussing population drift which features an interview with Junuar, Arthur Wake’s brother. The article surprisingly describes Arthur Wake as a contract painter in Madison for 30 years. Is this correct? From The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky, page 5, Wednesday, June 16, 1971 (I’ve attempted to fix some computer-interpretation errors …

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A note on Arthur Wake Jr from the oral history book “All We Had Was Each Other”

A note on Arthur Wake Jr from the oral history book “All We Had Was Each Other”

Here is a quote about Arthur Wake, Jr from the book “All We Had Was Each Other, The Black Community of Madison, Indiana”: A number of people from the Colored community of Madison went on to be successful. Our little community was very encouraging and supportive. But we were very isolated, socially and in many …

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