Pittsburgh family with ties to the founder of Alabama A&M University

[Normal1875]

I can only imagine how many "untold" stories we have similiar to this in the hbcu family! Many people are HBCU royalty in this country and have no idea the impact their ancestors had on black history and the advancement of our race through education. It's a special thing that a true descendant of our founder came back to attend AAMU generations later from when the school was founded in 1875.





http://www.wqed.org/tv/watch/?id=842&series=2

 

[CEE DOG]

Thanks for the information. I will have to watch this when I get home.

 

[Normal1875]

Thanks for the information. I will have to watch this when I get home.

I had to watch it over again because I missed the part that one of Dr. Buchanan's sons was Dinah Washington's 4th husband. I wonder does the family get royalties from all her songs they use in commercials especially the today show...I hope they have her catalog

 

[Normal1875]

Arts and Entertainment
Her great-great-grandfather was born a slave. Almost 200 years later, she visited the HBCU he built.

Julia Carpenter
Arts and Entertainment
October 31 at 10:38 AM

William Hooper Councill was once standing on the slave auction block in Hunstville, Ala. But by his death in the late 1800s, he was a free man, owned a plot of land and founded Alabama A&M, a historically black college, in the same town where he was once a slave.

Debra Clark-Russell, Councill’s great-great-granddaughter, submitted a photo of her first visit to campus to Historically Black, The Washington Post Tumblr project. She heard of Councill’s work from family stories, and several of her relatives were guests on the campus and even acted as student ambassadors for prospective black youth in the early 1970s. But Clark-Russell had never set foot on the land that was his life’s work. At age 49, she visited the Alabama A&M campus with her two children for the first time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...00-years-later-she-visited-the-hbcu-he-built/