Lets tip our caps to Pullman porters

Article on Pullman Porters in Pittsburgh Post gazette

Lets tip our caps to Pullman porters.

Article Link: Fr. Corridan-True-life inspiration for Karl Malden’s Waterfront Priest

News today that Karl Malden died at the age of 97 (I liked him best in “The Streets of San Francisco,” where he played the gruff-but- unflappable cop to Michael Douglas’s hotheaded rookie#, reminded me of his seminal role as Fr. Pete Barry, the priest in the film “On the Waterfront.” The person upon whom that character was based was the Jesuit priest John Corridan. Fordham University professor James Fisher is hard at work on a book on the life and work of this astonishing man. Below is a short piece by Fisher that was published in Company in 2003. #I’ll link to the original piece “Waterfront Priest” here, but reprint most of it below, with a tip of the hat to Company, the magazine for Jesuits and their friends, since the original site has some photos missing.) Also, here’s another piece about the man in The Irish Echo. Finally, believe it or not, Mr. Malden died on the 25th anniversary of Fr. Corridan’s death, July 1, 1984.

via America Magazine In All Things.

Article Link: Silencing the Fanatics – NYTimes.com#more-71797

Frederick Douglass was not going to let anyone keep him from speaking. Twenty years earlier, as a teenager kept in slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, he had struck back with his fists against the most feared white man in the county, a “slave breaker” who had been tasked with destroying the youth’s irrepressible spirit. Now – as a free person, an internationally renowned orator and one of America’s most fearless abolitionists – he would not yield even to a room full of white men. Not even if they included some of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in the state of Massachusetts. And especially not on this day, of all days.

via Silencing the Fanatics – NYTimes.com#more-71797.

Article Link: A Map of American Slavery – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com

A Map of American Slavery

One of the most important maps of the Civil War was also one of the most visually striking: the United States Coast Survey’s map of the slaveholding states, which clearly illustrates the varying concentrations of slaves across the South. Abraham Lincoln loved the map and consulted it often; it even appears in a famous 1864 painting of the president and his cabinet

via A Map of American Slavery – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.

Article Link:The ‘Midnight-Message’ of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – NYTimes.com

According to this article Longfellow’s Midnight Ride of Paul Revere was actually about the impending Civil War

Longfellow, a passionately private man, was, just as passionately and privately, an abolitionist. His best friend was Charles Sumner, for whom he wrote, in 1842, a slim volume called “Poems on Slavery.” Sumner, a brash and aggressive politician, delivered stirring speeches attacking slave owners; Longfellow, a gentler soul, wrote verses mourning the plight of slaves, poems “so mild,” he wrote, “that even a slaveholder might read them without losing his appetite for breakfast.”

via The ‘Midnight-Message’ of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – NYTimes.com.

For Civil War Buffs:DISUNION – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com

The New York Times has a feature on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

DISUNION – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com.