William Alfred Stewart was born September 19, 1930 to Horace and Flossie Stewart, the youngest of 5 children, in Atwood, Kansas. When he was 7 years old, his family moved to Richmond, California; then later to Manteca where he graduated from High School. After graduation, he joined the California National Guard at Stockton and proudly served his country from 1950-1956.
In 1953 he met the love of his life, Helen Pankratz. They were married in Turlock and built their first home there in 1955. They were blessed with Celebrating 65 years of marriage this past year.
Bill began his produce career in Turlock in 1956, also that year his first son Jim was born. In 1957, he accepted a job at Pacific Fruit & Produce Company. In 1958 he was promoted to Branch Manager and moved to Oxnard. There Sheri was born, and four years later second son John followed. Another promotion in 1965 brought the family to Kingsburg, and he later became Western Division Manager. In 1980 a new company WES PAK was f
british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. [ laughter ] this week on the civil war, hari jones, curator and assistant director at the african-american civil war memorial and museum, talks about the contributions of the african-american women during the war. this the 90 minutes. good evening. when our founding director, dr. frank smith jr. and secretary of state colin powell dedicated the spirit of freedom, the african-american civil war memorial in july of 1998, attention was brought to one of the best kept secrets in american history. attention was brought to to the 209,145 soldiers and officers that were officially mustered into the bureau of united states colored troops. attention was brought to how these soldiers were organized, how they fought, and what they accomplished in the civil war. attention was brought to an african descent community that fought to save the union and free themselves by enforcing the emancipation proclamatio
would pray for him during the time lincoln is writing and publishing the emancipation proclamation he s coming here in the greater u street corridor to camp barker where garrison elementary school stands today and praying and being sung to by aunt mary dimes. in that camp there was suffering. these are refugees. these are people running away and they need assistance. an african-american woman born enslaved in virginia, bought her freedom out in st. louis as she began working as a seamstress. not only bought her freedom but bought her son s freedom. she would come to washington from baltimore actually from st. louis to baltimore, then to washington and become a seamstress to the politicians wives. jeff davis s wife. he was her seamstress. and she would become mary todd lincoln s seamstress. and as mary todd lincoln s seamstress she had the ear of the first lady. and she would ask the first lady to donate to her organization that she established in 1862 called the contraband r
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captains don t lead generals. captains are tactical, not strategic. this organization already had a plan, it was to end slavery in league with the constitution, not write a new constitution. however they found they found tactical value in what john brown did. and anyone subordinate to the captain, they would encourage them to follow john brown. but you have to be subordinate to the caption. it s a tactical operation. you don t send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr because in many ways it was a suicide mission. but one african-american that was recruited in chatham that went with john brown, osborn perry anderson would return. he would return to chatham. he s originally from pennsylvania, but he returns to chatham. when he returns to chatham. i would look to say he submitted this report. when you examine who published his report, it s mary ann shadd-cary. she published his report after he