Authors: Betty DeRamus
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Detroit Free Press,
Wednesday, May 2, 2001.
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in Quincy, Illinois, The Lord’s Barn and defended it from a proslavery mob.
Todd, Stephen. His file on his request for a pension for Civil War injuries, National
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Walls, Bryan.
The Road That Led to Somewhere.
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Yanak, Ted, and Pam Cornelison.
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Barnett, Glenn Warren, II.
Lett-Banneker-Banna Ka Family Kinship, 2003.
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Bernikow, Louise.
The American Women’s Almanac.
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girls.
British Columbia Geography Manual.
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Brown, Tony. “In Historical Perspective.”
Tony Brown’s Journal.
New York: Tony Brown Productions, Inc., January/March 1984.
“Cal Davis One of Four Awarded Oak Leaf Cluster.”
Manistee News and Advocate,
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Carruth, Gorton.
The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates,
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Coffin, Levi.
The Reminiscences of Levi Coffin.
Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1876, chapter 12. Story about abolitionist John
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Cose, Ellis.
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge.
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The Detroit News,
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———. “Younger People Keep Spirit of Black Combat Pilots Alive.”
The Detroit News,
November 8, 2000.
———. “Neil Loving’s Story Will Inspire the Democratic Convention.”
The Detroit News,
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The 8th Air Force Museum. Letter to Calvin Murphy, December 13, 2001.
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Gavrilovich, Peter, and Bill McGraw, eds.
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Grabowski, Ken. “Bear Lake Man Seeks Congressional Medal of Honor for Uncle.”
Manistee News and Advocate,
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———. “World War II Veterans a Special Breed.”
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Gutman, Herbert G.
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Hoekstra, Pete, and John Conyers, Jr. Letter to Thomas E. White, secretary of the
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Kroeger, Brooke.
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Louisiana, A Guide to the State.
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Martin, John W.
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African American Family Magazine,
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Crossing the Line: Inter-racial Couples in the South.
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“Michigan’s 83 Counties: Manistee.”
Michigan History,
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———. Interview with author, Bear Lake, Michigan, August 2001.
———. Letters to author, December 6, 2001; December 13, 2001; January 28, 2002.
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———. “George W. Marsh.” Unpublished article.
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The New York Times,
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African-American and biracial families descended from white women and African slaves,
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Pitts, Leonard, Jr. “Appreciation for Generation of True Heroes.”
Detroit Free Press,
Friday, May 28, 2004.
“Poll Finds Improved Race Relations in America,” aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article,
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Raleigh Register,
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“The Road That Led to Somewhere,” a flyer promoting Bryan Walls’s book about his ancestors.
Rogers, J. A.
Sex and Race: A History of White, Negro and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas,
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The New World.
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———. Vol. I,
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Ruchames, Louis.
The Abolitionists: A Collection of Their Writings.
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the rumors that dogged Prudence Crandall’s school.
Schwarz, Philip J.
Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians & The Nation.
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Talks about Henry and Elsey Newby.
“Sgt. Davis, Cited for Heroism at Rabaul, Visits Home for Well-Earned Rest.”
Bear Lake Beacon,
April 11, 1944. This article talks about how much servicemen enjoyed the movies and
contains the quote in which Sergeant Davis talks about feeling let down after a flight.
Smith, Warren Thomas.
John Wesley and Slavery.
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white children slaves their own age.
Synnestvedt, Sig.
The White Response to Black Emancipation.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1974, pp. 52, 53.
“T. Sgt. Calvin Davis, Pleasanton Hero Ace, Reported Missing in Action over Germany.”
The Bear Lake Beacon,
January 9, 1945.
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The Atlanta-Journal Constitution,
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U.S. Census Office. Population of the United States in 1860, p. 359. Gives the number
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Vollers, Maryanne.
Ghosts of Mississippi.
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Walls, Bryan.
The Road That Led to Somewhere.
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Whitehill, Walter M., and Norman Kotker.
Massachusetts: A Pictorial History.
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Williams, Michael W., ed.
The African American Encyclopedia,
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Wingfield, Marshall.
History of Caroline County, Virginia.
Richmond: Trevvet Christian and Co., Inc., 1924.
Yanak, Ted, and Pam Cornelison.
The Great American History Fact-Finder.
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African Americans, Voices of Triumph: Perseverance.
By
the editors of Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1993.
The Arcata Union,
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escaped from slavery with her husband and a little girl, but there is no other evidence
that she had a husband before the Civil War.
Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving Recipes.
Muncie, Ind.: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, 1938.
Ballton, Samuel. Letter to the editor.
The Long-Islander,
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Berlin, Ira, and Leslie Rowland, eds.
Families & Freedom, A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil
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New York: The New Press, 1998.
Bernikow, Louise, in association with the National Women’s History Project.
The American Women’s Almanac.
New York: Berkley Books, 1997. The section headed “Civil War Spies” talks about how
a white spy named Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Virginia, smuggled freed slave Mary
Elisabeth Bowser into the home of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Bowser
reported whatever she overheard to Van Lew, who passed it on to Union officers. On
page 15, Bowser is discussed, and Harriet Tubman’s role as a spy is described on page
13.