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DESCRIPTION:With great excitement and a renewed focus, the Kick-off Celebration for 
 2019 California Black History Month is poised to build a bridge from the 
 distant past toward building a bright future.  Genesis 15:12-14, 
 #1619-2019.\n   \nDr. Carter G. Woodson established the way in 1926 
 creating Negro History Week, expanded in 1976 to Black History Month and 
 embraced by President Ford.  \n\nToday, we celebrate Black History Month in 
 February and prepare for African Heritage Month in September by including 
 “Voices of our Ancestors” while continuing the difficult journey to 
 include our “Hidden Figures” of excellence into early California 
 Childhood Education\nOur California Pioneers of Pan African Ancestry 
 challenged “California Grown” chattel slavery and systemic 
 institutional racism that were firmly established in 1849 values and 
 beliefs that continue today.  \n\n170 years ago, the towns Negro Bar, 
 Sacramento and Stockton were established in 1849.  The destruction of early 
 promise of Negro Bar/Negro Hill is finally poised to be shared today.\n\nWe 
 must identify the diversity of silent voices to speak volumes to share a 
 collective journey towards a greater measure of freedom lost during the 
 “Manifest Destiny” transition from Mexican rule to American rule at the 
 dawn of the California Gold Rush. \n\nWithin Negro Bar, Sacramento and 
 Stockton Rural Cemetery we continue to ferret out the authentic legacy with 
 a broader request for equity and equal opportunity.\n\nBlock 27, Stockton 
 Rural Cemetery, the historic colored section, is the best preserved and 
 documented burial site of people of Pan African ancestry who migrated to 
 California.\n\nWhat is freedom to someone not considered a human being? 
 \n\nChattel slavery reduced human beings to property, not even considered 
 an “enslaved human being” thus a very salient distinction remains the 
 unspoken value and belief often unchallenged.   \n\nToday, California 
 elected officials support eliminating the continued mandate of a focused 
 slavery paradigm that mandates historic systemic institutional racism, the 
 basis of “California Grown Apartheid” recorded in the 1849 California 
 State Constitution and early California Legislative Sessions.\n \n1849 was 
 the year Jeremiah King and his wife were given freedom papers, money and 
 passage to migrate from bowels of “chattel slavery in the deep south” 
 from Georgia to New Orleans and on arrive in California in time for the 
 California Gold Rush.\n\nIn 1803, Reverend Jeremiah King was reportedly 
 born in the low country of Georgia and his amazing life ended July 1, 1883 
 and his body was laid to rest within Block 27~Stockton Rural Cemetery. 
 \n\nYoung Jeremiah spent his youth enslaved in the back breaking humid 
 fields of the low country along the Atlantic seaboard.  He spent nearly 
 half a century enslaved in the State of Georgia, the southern most of the 
 13 English colonies prior to the America Revolution, the only American 
 Colony to originally expressly prohibit the enslavement of people of 
 African ancestry until American Independence. \n\nGeorgia was originally 
 claimed as part of the Spanish Mission System, the costal Port of Savannah, 
 GA aligned with St. Augustine, FL and the southern ports of Mobile, AL and 
 New Orleans, LA with New Spain headquarters in Havana, Cuba. \n\nThe 
 economic bonanza of “free labor” “Negroes” “enslaved chattel” 
 from the West Coast of Africa, today’s Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, 
 Nigeria and Angola were utilized for specialized agriculture skills to 
 produce the highly profitable commodities of “indigo and rice” along 
 the low county of Georgia and the Carolinas, prior to the invention of the 
 cotton gin and King Cotton. \n\nUnique West African agricultural production 
 methods facilitated retention of ancient African culture within the 
 Gullah/Geeche spiritual traditions transferred within faith based cultural 
 experience throughout our California Pan African Heritage.  \n\nPrior to 
 the “Great Compromise” and California Statehood, September 9, 1850, 
 Jeremiah King struck it rich in the southern gold mining district and 
 settled in San Joaquin County purchasing over 100 acres of prime 
 agriculture land near today City of Lathrop and finally settling in the 
 Historic Stockton Waterfront District. \n\nIt is recorded that “often” 
 Rev. Jeremiah King and his wife would travel to 40 miles to Old Sacramento 
 to worship GOD in the basement of the Chinese Baptist Church. \n\nBeginning 
 in September 1854, the African Baptist Church of Stockton was organized and 
 established in the Historic Stockton Waterfront District, hosting weekly 
 services for the remainder of his life. \n\nIn 1859, Rev. King successfully 
 petitioned the founding father of the City of Stockton, Captain Charles 
 Weber, for church property on W.Washington St. between Commence and Beaver 
 Street to relocate the purchase of a church building from Rev. James Woods 
 of the Presbyterian Church of Stockton. \n\nDuring the US Civil War, Rev. 
 Jeremiah King successfully petitioned the Trustees of the Stockton Rural 
 Cemetery to establish a Section 27, “a colored section” as the final 
 resting place for people of Pan African ancestry in the county seat of San 
 Joaquin, in the heart of the California Central Valley. \n\nLeadership at 
 the Stockton Rural Cemetery, installed a new grave marker for Rev. Jeremiah 
 King, and 2019 California Black History Month we are tasked with 
 spiritually opening the doors of the original African Baptist Church in 
 both Sacramento and Stockton\n\nListening to the “Voices of our 
 Ancestors” is essential to build a brighter future throughout the State 
 of California. \nBy remembering and celebrating the leadership of Rev. 
 Jeremiah King, we can begin to identify, document, preserve and interpret 
 our California Pan African Heritage as an elevated the seat of authority 
 for future generations to build upon.  \n\n2019 Kick-off for California 
 Black History Month we must uncover and share our, “Hidden Figures” 
 from our California Gold Rush Era.  \n\nBoth free and enslaved Black 
 Migration, from 1840-1875, is our special focus on the way to Emancipation 
 and Juneteenth that were possible after the final battles of the bloody US 
 Civil War.  We must celebrate our US Colored Troops who helped preserve a 
 nation, while earning a measure of freedom for “Enslaved Prisoners of 
 War, Chattel Property,” freedom is never free.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/22/18820614.php
SUMMARY:2019 State Capitol Black History Month Kick-Off Celebration
LOCATION:California State Capitol ~ Room 126\n10th and Lst\nSacramento, California 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/01/22/18820614.php
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