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Historical wrongs were corrected in Righting the Past. Here's why we did it. Original
Robin Reshard, Joe Vinson and Jamin Wells Special to the News Journal One year ago, the Pensacola New Journal published the first historical obituary in the Righting the Past series. Written by Teniadé Broughton and Scott Satterwhite, it corrected a historical wrong committed by the newspaper nearly a century ago. What was that wrong?
Righting the past: George Parker, noted lawyer, dead
Editor’s note: This is the 23rd in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men and women of the past who were denied the honor at the time of their death because of discrimination due to their race and/or gender. George W. Parker, former resident of Pensacola best known for his spirited defense of Rev. L.B. Croom in the 1905 streetcar segregation case, died on July 9, 1921, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Cause of death is unknown. Mr. Parker was born in Alabama in 1864.
Righting the past: Euphrozine Hinard, enslaver and emancipator, dead at 90
Editor’s note: This is the 20th in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men and women of the past who were denied the honor at the time of their death because of discrimination due to their race and/or gender. Euphrozine Hinard, Escambia County’s largest enslaver of color who later manumitted at least a dozen people before the Civil War, died in New Orleans on Jan. 2, 1866. She was 90 years old. Ms. Hinard had a complicated relationship with slavery.
Righting the past: Winnie Ann Hart, midwife and longtime resident of Old Warrington, dead
Editor’s note: This is the 17th in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men and women of the past who were denied the honor at the time of their death because of discrimination due to their race and/or gender. Winnie Ann Hart, longtime resident of Old Warrington, died around 1916. The matriarch of a large family, she was a well-known midwife in Old Warrington before the eviction of the community’s residents by the federal government in the 1910s and 1920s. Mrs.
Righting the past: Leander A. Shaw, turpentine worker, murdered by mob
Robin Reshard and Jamin Wells Special to the News Journal Editor’s note: This is the 15th in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men and women of the past who were denied the honor at the time of their death because of discrimination due to their race and/or gender. Leander A. Shaw, a laborer at the Barrineau turpentine camps, died on July 29, 1908. He was murdered by a mob who lynched him in Plaza Ferdinand in downtown Pensacola. Mr. Shaw was 38 years old.
Mariah McQueen, beloved mother, laid to rest in John the Baptist Cemetery
Theodore G.W. Morrison, Michael Thomin and Jamin Wells Special to the News Journal Editor’s note: This is the fourteenth in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men and women of the past who were denied the honor at the time of their death because of discrimination due to their race and/or gender. Mariah McQueen, a wife and mother of three, died on May 22, 1911. She was 55 years old.
Righting the Past: Mercedes Vidal, center of early territorial scandal, dead at 84
Editor’s note: This is the eleventh in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor the men and women of the past who were denied the honor at the time of their death because of discrimination due to their race and/or gender. Mercedes “Merced” Vidal, formerly of Pensacola, died of a stroke in July 1879 in the place of her birth, New Orleans, Louisiana. She was 84.
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