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>From Bob Corbett:
In my own library program I found the following:
Reference List
1. THE HAITIAN CONNECTION: THE DUSABLE MUSEUM. Chicago: The
DuSable Museum; 1982.
Note: only xerox copy.
2. UNDER THE SPELL: THE ART OF HAITI. Chicago: The Chicago
Public Library Cultural Center; 1983.
Note: Purchased from Ute Stebich.
3. Anon. JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DE SABLE (1745-1818).
Note: Founder of Chicago. C:\windows\personal\Haiti\Topics\Dusable and
Chicago.txt (see below)
4. Cortesi, Lawrence. JEAN DU SALBLE: FATHER OF CHICAGO.
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company; 1972; ISBN: 0-8019-5678-1.
5. Graham, Shirley. JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE DESABLE: FOUNDER OF
CHICAGO. New York: Julian Messner, Inc.; 1953.
Note: alternate spelling.
6. Pierre, Emile. SOUVENIR DE LA CONSECRATION DU DRAPEAU
MOPIQUE.
Follow up of # 3
>From bcorbett@netcom.com Thu Dec 5 17:18:45 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:37:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
To: Bob Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
Subject: Haitian-American Immigrant Experiences
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 11:26:04 -0500 (EST)
From:ghi408@cnsvax.albany.edu
A few weeks ago, I seem to recall a discussion topic involving
the Haitian immigrant experience. As I have spent most of this week
preparing lectures/discussion classes involving this issue, allow me to
share a couple of tidbits of information that others may find interesting.
(Perhaps others already mentioned these experiences within the previous
discussion of this topic - I do not recall the names mentioned.)
[1] Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, of Haitian descent, was a trapper who
settled on the shore of Lake Michigan and became the founder of the city
of Chicago. This most people know. However, while examining my rather
large stamp collection, I found that he was the subject of a U.S. Postal
Service commemorative stamp, issued February 20, 1987 in Chicago, IL. If
you read the one page summary (U.S. Postal Service Commemorative Book,
1987), you will discover he is labeled only as a 'black man'; no mention
is
made of his Haitian ancestry.
[2] Another Haitian-American immigrant, Ghislain Gouraiges Jr., who left
Haiti when he was 8 years old and grew up here in Albany, had a father
who taught here at the University at Albany. As I have been a student/TA/
Adjunct Faculty member here for over 12 years, I do not recall the name,
so it may have been before my time. However, I will ask around and try
to find more information about this individual.
This information came from an article by Joel Dreyfuss entitled, "The
Invisible Immigrants," (from an edited anthology _Inventing America:
Readings in Identity and Culture, Gabriella Ibeita & Miles Orvell, eds.,
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996) pp. 117-125. Dreyfuss himself recounts how
his "family was typical of the ethnic stew that prevailed in Haiti's
middle class," as he traced his ancestry through an "Emmanuel Dreyfuss,
a Jew from Amiens, France who had served in the French Army in Indochina,
sailed west in the 1880's in a wave of European emigrants and landed in
Haiti." p. 119.
Anyway, I thought others might find these tidbits interesting.
Glenn
[Corbett's note: Glenn, thanks so much for sharing these most
interesting notes from your lecture preparation. Wish others would do
this more often too. However, you are suffereing the dangerous
professorial
loss of time syndrom. This discussion was several MONTHS ago, not
weeks. :) ]
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Glenn Inghram University at Albany
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http://alpha1.albany.edu/~glenn
>From bcorbett@netcom.com Thu Dec 5 17:19:22 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:45:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
To: Bob Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
Subject: DuSable as "a black man"
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:10:18 -0500
From: David Collesano <dcc@pobox.com>
Glenn:
The City of Chicago waited until 1968 before acknowledging DuSable as its
"official" founder. This date suggests the belated recognition may have
had
more to do with the Daley machine's delivery of the black vote to Humphrey
in the national election than concerns about historical accuracy.
They named a high school in the Southside Bronzeville section after JB
(then acknowledged only as "our first black settler") in 1936. It is
located in the "heart and soul of Chicago's African American community".
This is the constituency for the school's name. Controversies surrounding
the name are recounted at the school's website:
www.dusable.cps.k12.il.us/60anniv.html
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>From bcorbett@netcom.com Thu Dec 5 17:22:16 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:30:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
To: Bob Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Haitian-American Immigrant Experiences:more on Du Sable
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:53:15 -0600
From: wrenn pamela <wrenn@fmppr.fmnh.org>
Bonswa, Msye Inghram!
I want to thank you for bringing up such an important topic. I am not a
native Chicagoan (residence for 13 months) and have found it rather
peculiar
that our city seems to have "neglected" to make mention of Jean Baptiste
Pointe du Sable in its tourist trade. Each boat ride I've take on Lake
Michigan has included extensive historical pieces on everyone, but Du
Sable.
I want to share a bit of information:
Chicago Historical Information
1779 Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
"Little is known about the Chicago area from 1700 until about 1779 when
the
pioneer settler of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, an African
American from Santo Domingo, built the first permanent settlement at the
mouth of the river just east of the present Michigan Avenue Bridge on the
north bank.
Records do not agree on the precise spelling of the name of the first
settler and it may be found variously as Pointe de Sable, Au Sable, Point
Sable, Sabre and Pointe de Saible. Du Sable, who appears to have been a
man
of good taste and refinement, was a husbandman, a carpenter, a cooper, a
miller, and probably a distiller.
In Du Sable's home, which he shared with his Indian wife, the first
marriage
in Chicago was performed, the first election was held, and the first court
handed down justice. The religion of the first Chicagoan was Catholic and
every contemporary report about Du Sable describes him as a man who
started
the story of Chicago as well as the story of the African American in
Chicago."
Compiled by: Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, 1975
Updated by: Municipal Reference Collection, CPL, 3/95
Pamela Wrenn