Complete The Sayings

If you lie down with dogs you ----

Keep your dress down and your ---

Last hired,---

Don’t trouble trouble until trouble---

Study long,---

Let every tub stand on ---

The blacker the berry,---

Beauty is only skin deep---

If you can’t bear no cross,---

Every goodbye …

*What was the motto of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs [c. 1896]? Hint it begins with the word ‘Lifting.’

Don’t hate the player, ---

All Power to the --- [Black Panther Slogan]

I don’t have to do anything but…

(you get up with fleas); (drawers up); (first fired); (troubles you) (study wrong); (its own bottom); (the sweeter the juice); (but ugly is to the bone); (You can’t wear no crown); (ain’t gone); (Lifting As We Climb); (hate the game); (People!); (stay black and die)

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Lavinia Bell, A Story to Pass On (Part 1)

Born in Washington DC / Enslaved in Texas / Interviewed in Canada 1861 I was going over newspaper and magazine interviews, 1827-1863 in collection edited by John W. Blassingame. Lavinia Bell’s story is particularly touching in her determination to be free at all costs yet disturbing in the raw violence to which she was subjected. Born free in Washington she was stolen as an infant and enslaved in Galveston, Texas. As the property of William Whirl, his wife, Polly, taught Lavinia to be a performer, “taught to dance, sing, cackle like a hen, or crow like a rooster…” About the age of 13 or 14, she was sent to the cotton field an exposed to a different level of bondage. In the Galveston, Texas cotton field the Whirl's laboring slaves were exposed to the relentless sun naked, their hair shaved close to their heads, and receiving fifty lashes daily, whether they worked or not. Bell reported that “they were also compelle...

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