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Josiah Thomas Walls (1832-1905)

Josiah Thomas Walls was born a slave in Winchester, Virginia on December 30, 1842.  He was conscripted by the Confederate Army and captured in Yorktown by Union forces in 1862.  Walls then enlisted in the U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment in 1863 where he rose in rank to First Sergeant.  Prior to his discharge from the Army in 1865, Walls married Helen Ferguson of Newnansville, Florida. After leaving the U.S. Army, Walls settled in Alachua County, Florida and became active in local politics.  After passage of the U.S. Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, Walls joined the newly formed Republican Party in Florida.  He was an elected delegate to the 1868 state constitutional conventions and shortly afterward was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature in 1868.  He advanced to the State Senate representing the 13th District, which was mostly Alachua County, in 1869.  First elected to the Congress in 1870, Josiah T. Walls became Florida...

Louis Augustus Carter (1876-1941)

Born on February 20, 1876, in Auburn, Alabama, Louis Augustus Carter was the second African American army chaplain to be promoted to colonel. Carter received his early education in a local public school, attended Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) from 1895 to 1897, and Selma University from 1897 to 1900, but he did not graduate from either institution. Then, from 1901 to 1904, he was a special student at the Virginia Union University Theological School and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree. Carter returned home to Auburn, Alabama, to be ordained in 1904 and served as pastor for several churches in Alabama, Virginia, and Tennessee for the next eleven years. After attending the Guadalupe College of Texas, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1907. In 1909 Carter married Mary B. Moss, and in 1910, he enlisted into the United States Army. After his initial training, he applied for an appointment as chaplain of one of the four regular army regiments for A...

Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947)

Her  married name  was  Chesimard. She is  an  African-American  activist and member of the former  Black Panther Party  (BPP) and  Black Liberation Army  (BLA). Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes and was the subject of a multi-state  manhunt . In May 1973, Shakur was involved in a shootout on the  New Jersey Turnpike , in which she was accused of killing  New Jersey State Trooper   Werner Foerster  and grievously assaulting Trooper James Harper. BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur was also killed in the incident, and Shakur was wounded. Between 1973 and 1977, Shakur was  indicted  in relation to six other incidents—charged with  murder ,  attempted murder ,  armed robbery ,  bank robbery , and  kidnapping —resulting in three  acquittals  and three  dismissals . In 1977, she was convicted of the  first-degree murder  of ...

Criminals Of Permission

J-Jon - C.O.P ( Criminals Of Permission ) This song speaks about the supposed protectors of American society at large and it breaths clear visual light on the problem of violence that they perpetuate. They perpetuate violence, violent acts, bullying, thievery, rape, etc. Most people do not want to believe that though because, they cling on to the image of their slogan "To protect and serve." Now my question is: Who are they protecting and who are they serving?