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NOVEMBER 15, 2001
Nation/World
Ceremony honors black veterans including
Civil War soldiers who founded village in Maryland
By JENNIFER HOYT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
About 100 people gathered
Monday to pay tributetoblack
veterans, including 18 former
slaves who fought in the Civil
War and later founded the vil
lage of Unionville, Md.
~ Afterreturning frombattle,
the soldiersbuilt thevillagein
1867, on land leased to them
by their former owners.
“They took an opportunity
for freedom to do something
special and they created acom
munity —acommunity that is
still standing strong,” said
Charles Robinson, pastor of
St. Stephen’s AME Church.
The church is one of the
village’s original buildings.
Unionville, located on
Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has
about 150 residents, many of
whom are descendants of vil
lage founders. Some 25 descen
dants attended the Veteran’s
Day wreath-laying ceremony
at the African American Civil
War Memorial.
The ceremony “brings up a
lot of pride,” said Harriette
Lowery, whose great-great
grandfather Benjamin Demby
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Study: Hate
groups use
terrorism fears
to recruit
CHICAGO
(AP) White-supremacist
groups based in the U.S. Mid
west are using the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks torecruit new
members, according toastudy
by an anti-racism group.
The Center for New Com
munity, a six-year-old faith
based organization in subur
ban Oak Park, counts 338
“white nationalist” groups in
10 Midwestern U.S. states.
Some of them are using im
ages of the burning World
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the group says in a report
titled “State of Hate: White
Nationalism in the Midwest
2000-2001.”
“These organizations have
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tion of literature and even a
few crimes inrecent months,”
said Devin Burghart, who di
rects the center’s Building
Democracy Initiative. “They’re
trying to use anti-Arab and
anti-Muslim sentiment in the
wake of Sept. 11.”
The Center for New Com
munity cites white suprema
cist groups in Illinois, Indi
ana, Wisconsin, Michigan,
lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Nebraska and Ohio.
Thegroup’sstudy found that
in the last year 33 percent of
white nationalist groupsinthe
Midwest wereactively recruit
ing young people. That com
paresto 10 percent in 1998-99,
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The Neo Nazi National Alli
ance has distributed fliers in
the Chicago area that feature
theattacksonthe World Trade
Center and the phrase “Close
our Borders!” and National
Alliance members have handed
out leaflets blaming the at
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Chaplain Imogene Stewart, a captain in the Tuskegee
Airmen Civil Air Patrol, sings at the African-American Civil
War Memorial in Washington Monday, Nov. 12, 2001
during a Veterans Day ceremony. About 100 people
gathered at the memorial to pay tribute to black veter
ansincluding 18 formerslaves who foughtin the Civil War
and later founded the village of Unionville, Md. AP Photo/
Kenneth Lambert
was one of Unionville’s
founders. “People of all races
hear again that we contrib
uted, and that really is impor
stuffright now, I would be a sell
out — to the black students,
faculty and staff here, not to
mentiontherest ofthecountry.”
Franklin told the Auburn Stu
dent Government Association
Senate on Monday night that
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especially our children and our
grandchildren.”
Lowery, 51, described
tions are not tolerated here.”
Earlier Monday, the univer
sity withdrew its recognition of
Beta Theta Pi. Also, the national
board of trusteesof Beta ThetaPi
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Unionville as a “small, quaint
village” with a church, a now
closed one-room school house
and a mostly elderly popula
tion. She moved back to
Unionville from Baltimore two
years ago and now lives on
land once owned by her grand
father.
Participantsin theceremony
sang “Lift Every Voice and
Sing” and prayed for Ameri
can troops engaged in the war
against terrorism.
“You only have to look
around to see the makeup of
our forces — Americans,” said
Col. Oliver Norrell ofthe Army
National Guard. “Veteran’s
Day is not a white celebration
... not a black celebration. It’s
acelebration of Americanswho
gave their lives.”
- Thememorial’s wall of honor,
liststhe names 0f209,145b1ack
soldiers who fought in the Civil
War and is inscribed with the
words of abolitionist Frederick
Douglass: “Who would be free
themselves must strike the
blow. Better even die free than
to live slaves.”
Astatuedepictinguniformed
black soldiers preparing for
battle stands at the center of
the plaza.
black and wore Afro wigs.
The university previously
suspended the Delta Sigma Phi
fraternity temporarily after a
party in which one member
dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan
costume and another wore
blackface and tied a noose
around his neck.
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