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		<title>Remembering Rosa</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/12/remembering-rosa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie McFarland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the anniversary of the first full day of the Birmingham Bus Boycott in 1955. On December 1 of that year, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, prompting her arrest and sparking the boycott that helped to fuel the growing Civil Rights movement. Arrests and violent confrontations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stallworths from Alabama</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/11/stallworths-alabama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margie Schwieterman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogy & Family Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to those of you who have added more names to the Stallworth collection.  Thus far  I think that Orange Stallworth, Anderson Stallworth, Isaac Stallworth, Louisa Stallworth,  and Jim and Sally Stallworth were slaves of Mark Parker Stallworth.  They chose to stay in the area and rear their families.  If you know of anyother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disagreements Over Symbolism &amp; The Confederate Flag</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2011/09/confederate-flag-controversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, September 22 was the inaugural meeting of the NURFC&#8217;s community Civil War Book Club. We discussed Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz. Confederates in the Attic is a great book; it&#8217;s a quick read full of quippy one-liners that dissect the Civil War in a way that makes you want to put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>55th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Refusing to Relinquish Her Seat</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/12/55th-anniversary-rosa-parks-refusing-relinquish-seat/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/12/55th-anniversary-rosa-parks-refusing-relinquish-seat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[381 Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Freedom Conductor Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=3861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks refusal to give up her seat garnered national attention and assisted in launching the Civil Rights Movement &#8211; specifically the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted 381 days.  The Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery bus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Sarah Fitzpatrick</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/08/faith-freedom-daily-sarah-fitzpatrick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Fitzpatrick was interviewed in 1938 in Alabama at age ninety. She was enslaved as a house servant in Alabama by Thomas Campbell.  In her own words she states that: In dem times “Niggers” had’ta hav’va pass to go to church too.  White fo’ks axed you whut church ya’ wan’na go to an’ dey issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Henry Baker</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/07/henry-baker/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/07/henry-baker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=2907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry Baker who was enslaved in Alabama participated in a 1938 interview at age eighty-three in Alabama by Thomas Campbell. In this interview he declares that; We sut’only wuz happy in dem days tuh learn dat we wuz free.  We don’t have Church now lack we did den.  Folks talkin’ ‘bout servin’ de Lawd.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Alabama Former Slaves</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/07/faith-freedom-daily-alabama-slaves/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/07/faith-freedom-daily-alabama-slaves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=2858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a 1910 interview, Bill Pickens gave an account about a former Alabama slave who succeeded in attending a Missionary Baptist Church in Alabama. The former enslaved man, as Pickens tells, went to his master and asked if he could attend the church. The master responded angrily and had him whipped for asking. The enslaved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/04/jermain-wesley-loguen/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/04/jermain-wesley-loguen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=2222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I am myself called a slave but will wear no fetters.” Coordinated help in Syracuse NY Early on, Loguen knew the horrors of slavery. His mother was kidnapped as a little girl from Ohio and taken south where she was enslaved. Later, as a grown woman, she and her children – including Jermain – were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Parks Model Bus on Display at Freedom Center</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/06/rosa-parks-model-bus-display-freedom-center/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/06/rosa-parks-model-bus-display-freedom-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The same model bus like the one Rosa Parks rode to and from work in Montgomery, AL until the day in 1955 when she refused to move to the back of the bus for a white passenger, will be on display in front of the Freedom Center in the week leading up to Major League [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Update to the Story: &#8220;The Picture&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/05/picture-update-story/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/05/picture-update-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Glavic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogy & Family Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monroe County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous posting to the web site (July 2008), I outlined my search for the ancestors of my husband&#8217;s African American family in Alabama.  I knew that his great grandfather was born into slavery in South Carolina in 1832 and his great grandmother in 1843 in Georgia.  My quest was to find the slaveholder [...]]]></description>
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