GwinnettForum | Number 22.48 | July 4, 2023
HERE’S A PAINTING of the newly-opened International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., which fronts the Cooper River where enslaved Africans once were unloaded from Africa, and sold on the very ground of the museum. This painting was the cover of a 48-page commemorative special issue of the Charleston City Paper recently. To flip through the pages of that publication, click here.
TODAY’S FOCUS: International African American Museum opens in Charleston
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Affirmative Action probably kept him out of law practice
UPCOMING: Leadership Gwinnett announces 44 for class of 2024
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech Respiratory unit gets credentialing award
RECOMMENDED: Nature’s Best Hope, by Douglas W. Tallamy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Paschal’s Restaurant was mecca for civil rights movement
MYSTERY PHOTO: A flowing water fountain in moonlight is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Patchwork stays at Hudgens Center through July 22
CALENDAR: Viva Las Duluth is Saturday, July 8 on the Green
International African American Museum opens in Charleston
Former Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. at the International African American Museum’s multimedia ‘Transatlantic Experience’ gallery. | Courtesy Joseph P. Riley Jr. and the Charleston City Paper.
(Editor’s note: One of the most significant museums of our nation opened recently in Charleston, S.C. Because of its importance, GwinnettForum is devoting its entire editorial space today to this subject. It is a particularly fitting story to be published on July 4, 2023, the 247th year since our country’s founding.—eeb).
By Andy Brack
Editor and publisher, Charleston City Paper
CHARLESTON, S.C. | Several hundred people were the first paying visitors June 27 as the International African American Museum opened 23 years after first being dreamed of by former Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr.
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As of July 3, tickets were sold out until July 11 for tours of the new attraction built on Gadsden’s Wharf, a site where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans got off cramped, dirty slaving ships bound for Charleston.
At a June 24 dedication featuring about 500 luminaries, Riley beamed as he described the importance of the $125 million museum.
“This museum that we open today is a gift to our country and a gift to each of us and our future,” he said, adding it would be integral to telling often-ignored African American history that had not been told in a place where it happened. “[Professor] Henry Louis Gates called Charleston the ‘ground zero’ in the African American experience and indeed it is. “
At a nearby community celebration at Marion Square, current Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said the new museum as a living edifice that would “rekindle the promise of America all over the world” through its deeply moving American stories and connections. “We can all bear witness in the heartbreak and the hope that is its legacy.”
In 1998, Riley read author Edward Ball’s Slaves in the Family, which tells the story of his slave-holding South Carolina family. Riley quickly resolved to have a place to tell the story of the African American experience. The project was announced in 2000.
“We are here,” IAAM President and CEO Dr. Tonya M. Matthews said in a June 24 welcome, “to reimagine [history] and to tell one of the greatest stories of struggle of all time.”
Click to read stories about the museum and the impact of enslaved Africans and their descendants on America.
The stories of struggle of African Americans in Charleston and across the continent will be reimagined and told at the museum, unlike past generations when stories were untold, unspoken, hidden, erased and denied, she said.
“Stories are seeds and seeds sprout as roses that invite you to lean in. … The seeds have been planted. Let us till this soil. Welcome to the International African American Museum.”
Michael B. Moore, the museum’s founding president and CEO who is now running for Congress, said the IAAM’s opening was emotionally overwhelming.
“To create an institution that elevates the stories of people who have given so much to the building of our country is so important,” he said, adding that the museum’s new Center for Family History will help Black families connect in new ways to their heritage.
“The Center for Family History has the potential for being a profoundly positive resource because the museum is feeding the story of history. Anything we can do to articulate a broader swath of that history is a powerful tool to help them understand.”
In a recorded video message, former First Lady Michelle Obama said she and her husband were thrilled to celebrate the opening of the museum. Her ancestors had daily roots at a Georgetown plantation.
Former President Barack Obama observed: “It’s a powerful museum – one that every American can learn something from. It’s an important part of our collective history.”
Obama’s former administrator of NASA, South Carolina native Charles F. Bolden Jr., also appeared on video screens at both locations: “Black history is American history and we need to have a place that people from around the world can come to understand our history.
“Where everything started”
The International African American Museum | Photo by Greg Noire.
Joy Bivens, who worked in 2018 to 2020 in Charleston to help bring the museum to reality, traveled to Charleston for the opening.
“I’m just excited it came to fruition,” said Bivens, now director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. “I recognize it as a center of the Black American experience. I think the museum put that culture in the limelight – in the public consciousness where it needs to be because this is where everything started.”
At the public “Community Watch” at Marion Square, Moncks Corner native and national radio star Charlamagne Tha God emceed a celebration that included performances by local musicians and artists such as Grammy Award-winning band Ranky Tanky, former Charleston poet laureate Marcus Amaker, DJ SCrib, Jesse Nager and more. Singers Bebe Winans and Candice Glover also performed during the dedication.
Laird Nelson, a Charleston resident since 2005, said he already has tickets for the second day that the museum is open and is planning to go again with family in July. The museum, he said, is “like a movie. You see it once, but you have to go again to get all the details.”
One woman, who wouldn’t give her name, said she was thrilled with the museum. “I’m very happy with the museum being built here. It took a while with the delay, but I’m happy it’s finally here. I’ll be going there very soon.”
A former school teacher who also wouldn’t give her name, attended the public ceremony but wasn’t as positive.
“I think it’s great that they spent all that money on that museum, but at the same time, we need money for the Black people. They are trying to disenfranchise us. They are trying to run us out of our community. They want me to be proud today. But I am not proud today. One day is not going to put a halo over me.”
The museum is open every Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. excluding Christmas and Thanksgiving. Admission price is $19.95 for adults, and $9.95 for youth, seniors and the military. Children under six are admitted free.
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Affirmative Action probably kept him out of law practice
Editor, the Forum:
Here’s one man’s story of affirmative action.
I graduated from the University of Missouri in December of 1972, after four years in the Air Force, and using the GI bill and working my way through undergraduate school at that University, plus having two more jobs. I took the LSAT twice, and my score was reported as being in the top 10 percent in the nation. I was not admitted to law school at Mizzou. The official line was there were more qualified applicants.
However, unofficially after some inquiries, the actual reason was admitting less qualified minority and women applicants in the name of diversity. Admittedly, those individuals were probably qualified. I am certain they went on to become good members of the bar.
This morning, I heard two separate individuals declare that affirmative action had no effect on the admission of more qualified applicants. No, I cannot prove it, but I believe it happened to me. And yes, that was 50 years ago. Back then, my military service carried no special weight. I am white, Christian, and have no distinct qualities.
Decisions and practices do have consequences. Some people will say the University did me a favor, since they did not make me an attorney. And when I look at the Supreme Court and the condition of the justice system, maybe they really did do me a favor.
Then again, who knows what I might have accomplished as an attorney?
– Dan Bollinger, Loganville
Feels his present internet service is less of the evils
Editor, the Forum:
Great article on phone and internet frustration. I tried AT&T but went back to the lesser of the evils, Comcast. All the automated phone tree “help” is still most difficult. Perhaps soon the new “AI” will be able to speak/respond competently.
Keep speaking the truth.
– Rob Blatecky, Buford
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Leadership Gwinnett announces 44 for class of 2024
Forty-four people have been selected for the Leadership Gwinnett Class of 2024 — the 38th class of the organization’s signature program for established community leaders. Since 1985, Leadership Gwinnett has ensured that Gwinnett’s most influential and esteemed leaders are knowledgeable about issues, well-networked, and passionate about the success of the county and the region.
These talented leaders will spend nine months immersed in an active learning experience, diving into our community’s history, assets, and challenges, emerging ready to create positive change alongside a network of influencers and decision-makers.
The Leadership Gwinnett program will begin in August 2023 and run through May 2024.
The Class of 2024:
- Shaun Adams, Counsel, Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein, LLP;
- Shameka Allen, Associate Director, Good Samaritan Health Centers of Gwinnett;
- Nelmaris Alvarez, Director of Development, Corporate Relations, Junior Achievement of Georgia;
- Andrea Barclay, Founder and CEO, Because One Matters;
- Christy Barnes, General Counsel, Georgia Department of Community Affairs;
- Katha Blackwell, CEO, Partnership Against Domestic Violence;
- Clayton Cain, CEO/ Managing Partner, Cain Injury Law;
- Andre Castro, Director of Community Engagement, GNR Public Health;
- Arefeen Chowdhury, Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, ABM Industries;
- Dr. Christine Miller Divine, Chief Information Officer, Georgia Gwinnett College;
- Chris Fehn, Principal Consultant, SEI-Atlanta LLC;
- Dr. Reuben Gresham, Cluster Superintendent, Gwinnett County Public Schools;
- Kelsey Grodzicki, Partner, Winter Capriola Zenner, LLC;
- Melissa Hardegree, Chief Communications Officer, City of Lawrenceville;
- Lisa Robinson Hernandez, Attorney, The Fowler Firm;
- Adela Iturregui, Founder/Owner/Managing Attorney, ABC Estate and Legacy Planning;
- Liz Jackson, Director of Community Relations, Piedmont Eastside Medical Center;
- Sydney Johnson, Creative Director, Accent Creative Group;
- Michelle Kang, President/CEO, AAPI Outreach & Engagement, LLC;
- Yari Lawson, Founder/Partner, Lawson Law Firm, PC;
- Tray Leslie, Renewables and Resiliency Manager, Georgia Power;
- Tony Lockard, Director of Safety and Security/ Gwinnett County Public Schools;
- Dr. Andrea P. Mann, Dean and Chief Academic Officer, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine;
- Senator Nikki Merritt, District 9, Georgia State Senate;
- Bret Muetzelfeld, CEO/Broker, Peach State Realty;
- Imran Niazi, CEO/President, Blackwater Construction Group;
- Paul Oh, Director, Public Policy and Community Affairs, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce;
- Chris Palmer, Client Service Leader, Jacobs;
- Tommy Pearce, Executive Director, Neighborhood Nexus;
- Wesley Person, Judge, Gwinnett County Recorder’s Court;
- Samuel Richmond, Founder and President, Nvestfit, LLC;
- Craig Roberts, District Director, Engineering & Operations, Jackson EMC;
- Sydney Sattler, Controller, TechCXO;
- Dr. Brett Savage, Principal, Brookwood High School, Gwinnett County Public Schools;
- Jammie Taire, Managing Attorney, SmithTaire Legal, LLC;
- Curt Thompson, Attorney/CEO, Thompson and Associates Law Firm, P.C.;
- Robert Thompson, Captain, Suwanee Police Department;
- M. Nikki Thornton, Senior Director, 3DE by Junior Achievement of Georgia;
- Patty Thumann, Managing Partner, PBJ Media Holdings
- Michelle Vereen, Department of Child Advocacy and Juvenile Services, Gwinnett County;
- Bianca (BB) Watkins, Agent/Owner, BB Watkins Agency-State Farm;
- Angie West, CFO, Richardson Housing Group;
- Nikeisha Whatley-Leon, System Director, Behavioral Health Services, Northside Hospital; and
- Jen Young, Executive Director, Impact46, Inc.
Gwinnett Tech respiratory unit gets credentialing award
Students in respiratory program at study
Gwinnett Technical College’s Respiratory Care program is considered one of the top programs of its kind in the country – not surprising when the program’s graduates have a ten-year streak of 100 percent pass rates on the field’s national credentialing exam, a rare accomplishment.
Later this month, the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) will honor the college’s Respiratory Care program with the Distinguished RRT Credentialing Success Award. The award honors colleges with three or more years of outcomes data; hold accreditation without a progress report; document RRT credentialing success of 90% or above; and meet or exceed established CoARC thresholds for CRT credentialing success, retention, and on-time graduation rate.
Respiratory care therapists are critical in caring for patients suffering from heart and lung illnesses. Gwinnett Tech’s respiratory care program trains its students using the latest medical technology and equipment to prepare them for employment in the field.
Gwinnett Tech’s associate degree in respiratory care can be completed in two years. For more information on Gwinnett Tech’s Respiratory Care program, visit: https://www.gwinnetttech.edu/respiratorycare/.
EMC Foundation awards $60,000 to Gwinnett agencies
Getting a check for $10,000 from the Jackson EMC Foundation is Greg Elder, vice president of client services for MUST Ministries, second from the right. EMC District Manager Jennifer Fennell is at the left, next to Beauty Baldwin of the EMC Foundation. At the right is Kenny Lumpkin, also of the Foundation.
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total of $123,696 in grants for organizations during its recent meeting, including $60,000 to organizations serving Gwinnett County.
- $15,000 to Adventure Bags Inc., for its Serving Children in Crisis, One Bag at a Time Program, to create comfort bags and distribute to the displaced.
- $15,000 to The Lawrenceville Cooperative, an emergency food bank for residents of Lawrenceville and Dacula in Gwinnett County, for its Emergency Assistance Program to purchase food from local food banks and/or local grocery stores.
- $15,000 to Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Suwanee, for its Opportunities Academy Program to educate rising 10th and 11th grade students in Gwinnett County Public Schools in medicine, health and behavioral sciences.
- $10,000 to MUST Ministries Inc., for its summer lunch program, which provides breakfast and lunch to needy children in Gwinnett County five days per week for nine weeks.
- $5,000 to Freedom Path Counseling, to provide one-on-one and group counseling services for residents in Clarke, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall and Madison counties.
Nature’s Best Hope, by Douglas W. Tallamy
From Rick Krause, Lilburn: Tallamy nails it again with his latest book. He is one of a growing number who knows that the extinction crisis is more dire to the existence of man than is climate change. He recounts the history of man’s misguided environmental stewardship in not only broad terms (less than five percent of longleaf pine remains in the southeast), but also in a typical suburban yard, with its turf-grass lawn to its preponderance of ecologically sterile, often invasive, non-native plants. As an entomologist, he knows that those types of environments will not sustain biodiversity. Native plants are required to achieve that, and he writes of the connections to those plants and to animals. Pockets of parks and preserves will not accomplish this, but that we can turn our yards into conservation corridors of wildlife habitats, and then educate our neighbors. It’s an excellent, clear, easy to read, often humorous book.
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Paschal’s Restaurant was mecca for civil rights movement
Paschal’s Restaurant, located in Atlanta’s historic Castleberry Hill neighborhood, was an important meeting place for leaders of the civil rights movement. Founded by brothers James and Robert Paschal, the restaurant and adjacent jazz venue, La Carrousel, were known for serving Black and white patrons in defiance of segregation laws.
In 1947 James and Robert Paschal opened Paschal Brothers Soda, a 30-seat luncheonette at 837 West Hunter Street. The brothers, originally from Thomson, had backgrounds in hospitality and customer service prior to entering the food service business..
In December of 1960, James and Robert opened a jazz venue, La Carrousel Lounge, adjacent to the restaurant. La Carrousel quickly gained a reputation as “Atlanta’s jazz mecca,” hosting renowned musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lou Rawls, along with scores of local artists.
In segregated Atlanta, La Carrousel Lounge was the only formal nightclub that allowed Black patrons. The club’s clientele was largely interracial, though, despite the fact that the liquor and business licenses specified “colored only.” The jazz lounge pushed the boundaries of segregation and allowed Blacks and whites to mingle socially, which helped establish Paschal’s as the unofficial headquarters of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
In 1967 Paschal’s underwent its last major expansion with the addition of a six-story, 120-room motel. Paschal’s Motor Hotel was the first Black-owned hotel in Atlanta. At the height of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. kept a suite that he used as a planning space.
When Atlanta officials announced plans for an expansion of the city’s airport, the brothers sensed yet another opportunity to grow their business. When leases for restaurants in the new terminal were made available, in a joint venture with Dobbs Houses Inc., the Paschal brothers won a 15-year food and beverage contract at the airport in 1978.
The relationships that James and Robert Paschal built within the city’s Black community made Paschal’s a central meeting spot during the civil rights movement and helped earn the restaurant its reputation as Atlanta’s “Black City Hall.”
Due to its proximity to the Atlanta University Center, Paschal’s also served as a gathering spot and safe haven for student-led civil rights organizations.
In 1996, after years of waning business, Clark Atlanta University bought the restaurant and the brothers relinquished all decision-making rights. In 2002 James Paschal, the only surviving owner, partnered with Atlanta-born businessman Herman J. Russell to open a new location on Northside Drive, still in the Castleberry Hill neighborhood. The original restaurant and Paschal Motor Hotel were renamed The Paschal Center.
In 2003, citing high costs for upkeep and little profitability, Clark Atlanta announced it would demolish the original restaurant and hotel, sparking outrage throughout the city. In response to the outcry, the buildings were not demolished. However, the original Paschal’s location remains on the Atlanta Preservation Center’s “Most Endangered Historic Places” list.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
A flowing water fountain in moonlight is today’s mystery
A water fountain in the moonlight is this edition’s Mystery Photo. Can you figure out where this photograph was taken? Tell us, if you can. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
The last mystery photo proved recognizable to several people. First in was Barbara Dawson, Dahlonega: “As a retired librarian, you stole my heart with this mystery. It’s the Rijksmuseum Research Library, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In researching for the answer, I came across photos of a library here and there that pictured what I think were card catalogs. Can’t help myself — love ’em, a tool of a slower pace of life.” The photo came from Bruce Johnson of Lawrenceville.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. supplied some added information: “There are wrought iron railings and a swirling staircase that spans four stories high (clearly visible in the center-right of the mystery photo). The large skylight above the library’s reading room meant visitors didn’t need candles or gas lamps to read during the daylight hours. Additionally, the upper sections of the walls were painted in light colors to reflect as much light as possible.”
Also nailing this mystery were Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Lindsay Borenstein, Atlanta; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Bill McLees, Norcross; Michael Gagnon, Flowery Branch; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; and Brent Vinke of Lawrewnceville.
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Patchwork is open at Hudgens Center through July 22
Patchwork is a solo exhibition at the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning by Atlanta-based artist Krista Jones, who is best known for her vibrant pattern-based murals and complex canvas paintings. The exhibit features large-scale paintings, smaller works, soft relief sculptures and installations. The exhibit is on view in the Hudgens’ Fowler Gallery through July 22. The Jones exhibit features aspects of expressionism, cubism and abstraction, with a tendency toward deformation and dislocation of shapes and subject matter.
Viva Las Duluth is Saturday on the Green
Historic Norcross Trolley Tour will be Thursday, July 6, from 1 to 3 p.m., starting at the Cultural Arts and Community Center. Ticket holders get to explore the charm of this town, founded in 1870, the second oldest in Gwinnett. Local Historian Gene Ramsey will give unique stories while sampling the fare of downtown merchants.
Meet author Lisa See on Saturday, July 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Norcross Cultural and Arts Center. Enjoy an evening with this best selling author. Click the link to get the Lisa See tickets.
Viva Las Duluth will be Saturday, July 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. on the Green in Downtown Duluth. The evening that will transport you to the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas. Come along, bring your lawn chairs, and get ready for a good night of entertainment. Step into our Vegas wonderland and prepare to be captivated by an exhilarating lineup of talent. From jaw-dropping celebrity impersonators to mind-bending magicians, dueling pianos that will make your heart sing, and cirque-style dancers defying gravity with their awe-inspiring moves, Viva Las Duluth promises a night of non-stop excitement. For details, go to www.duluthga.net/vivalasduluth.
The House at Pooh Corner will be on stage from July 13-16 at the Lionheart Theatre in Norcross. Christopher Robin has decided to run away with his friends Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and the rest. Probably they’ll go to the North Pole or to the South Pole. For there is a dark, mysterious threat that he’s to be sent away to Education. Nobody knows exactly what or where that is, and if he’s sent to such a distant place, what can his friends possibly do without him? So it’s generally agreed that they’ll run away. As the situation becomes clearer, Christopher Robin isn’t quite so sure that running away is the answer. To purchase tickets, go to lionhearttheatrereservations@yahoo.com.
Meet Children’s Authors Kahran and Regis Bethencourt on Saturday, July 15, at 11 a.m. at the Duluth Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. They are the founders of CreativeSoul Photography. They will be talking about their new book Crowned, which encourages the imagination of young children. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Writers’ Workshop with the Atlanta Writers Club will be held Saturday, July 15, at 12:45 p.m. at the Duluth Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library. Learn more about writing, network with other writers, and listen to accomplished authors. Atlanta Writers Club officers Kim Conrey and Patrick Scullin will present “Marketing for Writers.”
Housing Resource Expo will be July 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Central Gwinnett High in Lawrenceville. Over 20 housing agencies will provide information and resources on housing issues, homeownership, home improvement opportunities and rental programs. It is sponsored by Gwinnett Housing Corporation and Lawrenceville Housing Authority.
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