(Akiit.com) Charles Town, WV…..Charles Town West Virginia national award winning author Bob O’Connor, a Civil War writer who has given us three historicalnovels about the conflict, has changed gears and published a non-fictioncivil war book called “The U.S. Colored Troops at Andersonville Prison.”

The book is a follow up of his fictional account “Catesby: Eyewitness to the Civil War” in which the main character is captured following the Battle of Olustee, Florida and taken to Andersonville Prison.

The new book gives the known biographical information on the 103 black soldiers incarcerated in the famous Confederate Prison at Andersonville, Georgia. The untold story of the USCT troops in the prison includesdocumentation on the origins of the U.S. Colored Troops.

“Of the 179,000 plus black soldiers who fought in the U.S. Army, only 776 are documented as having been in a Confederate prison,” O’Connor claims.“One hundred three of those were in Andersonville, including more thanhalf from either the 8th USCT (Pennsylvania) or the 54th Massachusetts, mostly captured at the February 20, 1864 battle at Olustee (also called Ocean Ponds).

Usually, O’Connor states, colored soldiers were often shot and killed oreven taken back to the South and sold into slavery. In several instances,the black soldiers were killed even while surrendering, with the reportsof the Battle of Fort Pillow being amongst the worst instances of thathappening.

The 103 prisoners include two white officers of the USCT who should havebeen taken to an officers prison. They held instead with the enlisted menbecause they were USCT officers. As such, they were also denied medicalhelp at the prison. Of the 103 prisoners, thirty-four died at the prison. Another 12 survived the prison and were transferred to Florence, South Carolina only to diewithin thirty days after their arrival.
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(Akiit.com) Future Leader of the World was founded in 2007 by husband and wife team Gary and Sherrie Mitchell. “My husband actually thought of the idea and I helped to put it in motion”, says Sherrie. Not only are we projecting a positive message to the world, we can honestly say we love what we do. Having kids of are own, we try to guide them on the right path of life and show them you don’t have to wear a negative logo on your chest to be noticed. This is what makes our clothing so unique and different from others. Our apparel is targeted towards youth and adults by helping them to believe in themselves and never give up. Our company FLOW encourages children to read by sending a free book with every online order.

Even though we are just starting from scratch and have had no celebrity pulls in the entertainment world in helping us to market our line, we have been successful in getting the word out about FLOW. We continue to network at different functions through out the city and states and meet with companies big and small to carry our brand. Focused and motivated we are determined to make FLOW known worldwide. Thank you for your interest and support for FLOW and always remember to believe in your dreams and what you can achieve.

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(Akiit.com) Patricia Anne Phillips is a local author of seven romance novels. After her daughter’s health started to decline, Patricia was asked to move into her daughter and family home. Her daughter had a car accident, and two months later was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). After the car accident her conditions worsen. It was devastating to see her suffer with more extreme symptoms. Soon Patricia realized that living with a family member that has Multiple Sclerosis makes changes for everyone in the household. That was when she decided to write a book that wasn’t one of her romance novels, but a novel that was based on a true story, with true facts that could help others.

Since Multiple Sclerosis is diagnosed more in women than men, Patricia wanted to write a story that would inspire and uplift women self-esteemed. Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system (the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord. Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50. MS is not considered a fatal disease as the vast majority of people with it live a normal life-span. But may struggle to live as productively as they desire, often facing increasing limitations. Also, Multiple Sclerosis progresses faster in African Americans than other races.

Read one woman’s story in Patricia Anne Phillips novel, Treading Waters, A Woman Living With MS, based on a true story. ISBN 978-0-615-27822-3 $14.99

Official Website; http://www.paphillipsbooks.net
Contact author; patriciphilli@aol.com

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Like most black women, Chris-Tia Donaldson, author of recently published “Thank God I’m Natural: The Official Guide to Caring and Maintaining for Natural Hair”, grew tired of spending thousands of dollars and hours upon hours frying her nappy tresses into submission. After 25 years of trying to realize an unattainable beauty standard, Chris-Tia decided to finally let go of relaxers, wigs, weaves, and extensions and embrace her kinky hair for what it was in all its natural glory.

Although a growing number of black women are now opting to wear their hair natural, they are often at a loss when it comes to properly taking care of their tightly-coiled locks. Thank God I’m Natural eliminates the daunting task of searching through the clutter of websites, blogs, and Internet message boards for information on going natural, and side steps the growing number of individuals claiming to be “experts” on this ever-growing topic.

Featuring the advice of celebrity stylists for Oprah, Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Floetry and Naomi Campbell (among others), Thank God I’m Natural is a simple, fun, and easy to read publication that covers all aspects of caring for natural hair and locs. In addition to providing product recommendations and styling tips from the pros, this book also traces the history of black grooming practices and dispels many popular myths associated with wearing black hair in its natural state (e.g. Natural hair is unprofessional, I’ll never get a date with kinky tresses, etc.). This groundbreaking project is also unique in that it is filled with tales of hair disasters and successes from the perspectives of everyday women who are going natural. The author also shares her own personal experiences (both funny and sad) — working in corporate America with a kinky mane.
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(Akiit.com) The Society of Architecture Historians Conducts Historic Tour…

The Society of Architectural Historians is holding a four-day study tour from October 8-12 featuring the architecture, urbanism, and commemorative landscapes associated with the civil rights movement in Alabama and Georgia.

The tour, conducted by university professors such as Dell Upton from UCLA, will begin in Atlanta, Georgia with a visit to the first and final homes of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Stops will include Auburn Avenue, the black business district of Atlanta in the early twentieth century and the location of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site. It includes Dr. King’s birthplace, Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he shared a pulpit with his father, and the King Center, site of his tomb, Jr.

The next day there will be tour of the Atlanta University Center, the world’s largest consortium of African American private institutions of higher education, that includes Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown. The neighborhood includes the Alonzo Herndon mansion, Ralph David Abernathy’s church, and Booker T. Washington High School, which Dr. King attended. The tour then proceeds to Tuskegee University, much of which was designed by pioneering African-American architect Robert R. Taylor.

In Montgomery, Alabama the tour will visit Dexter Avenue-King Memorial Baptist Church, an architecturally significant 19th-century structure pastored by Dr. King during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Nearby are the Civil Rights Memorial (Maya Lin, 1989); the Dexter Avenue parsonage, where King lived during his Montgomery years; and the Greek Revival state capitol with its flamboyant Confederate Memorial. Other historic sites visited include the Viola Liuzzo Memorial in Selma and many other moving, historic sites in that crucible of the Civil Rights Movement.

In Birmingham, one of the South’s most prosperous and most rigidly segregated industrial cities in the twentieth century attention will be paid to its historical racial geography, including the early twentieth-century middle-class black suburb of Smithfield; Dynamite Hill, Sloss Furnace, a National Historic Landmark, Kelly Ingram Park, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

For further details and tour registration please visit www.sah.org or contact Kathy Sturm, Manager, Meetings-Fellowships-Tours at ksturm@sah.org, 312 543 7243.