tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post7409620548395221016..comments2023-10-17T06:08:27.032-05:00Comments on Grantian Florilegium: A History in Photographsgileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-32715764611087250382010-07-28T08:25:59.075-05:002010-07-28T08:25:59.075-05:00Dr. Grant,
Have you read The Immortal Life of Hen...Dr. Grant,<br /><br />Have you read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? This was my second time running into information about the Tuskegee Institute. The first was an essay I wrote in HS about experiments performed on U.S. citizens in the 1940s-1970s. <br /><br />In the Immortal Life you can see a dichotomy - in one sense there is a window into this world of educated black researchers - scientists who were a valuable part of the medical research going on in the scientific community and yet through another window we see a view of an uneducated, even illiterate people some of whom were misused and others of whom were just plain scared of the place (Tuskegee Institute).<br /><br />This name, Tuskegee, is a very familiar one to me as I grew up not far from Tuskegee in Robbinsville, NC. It seems there was a band of indians who called themselves the Tuskegee. It's my understanding that the tribe split and part of them merged with the Cherokee near where I live - along the Tennessee River and into Tellico Plains and on through to Snowbird which close to Robbinsville. Have you ever been on the Cherohala Parkway?<br /><br />I have also heard that it was the first name of Sequoyah, but do not know if he took the name of the place, or if it was vice versa. <br />I have often wondered how that name found its way into Alabama. Did the other part of that tribe go in the other direction, or is Alabama where it originated?<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for the blog I always enjoy reading!Amber Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453083142344989377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-47952825000000290272010-07-28T08:25:57.780-05:002010-07-28T08:25:57.780-05:00Dr. Grant,
Have you read The Immortal Life of Hen...Dr. Grant,<br /><br />Have you read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? This was my second time running into information about the Tuskegee Institute. The first was an essay I wrote in HS about experiments performed on U.S. citizens in the 1940s-1970s. <br /><br />In the Immortal Life you can see a dichotomy - in one sense there is a window into this world of educated black researchers - scientists who were a valuable part of the medical research going on in the scientific community and yet through another window we see a view of an uneducated, even illiterate people some of whom were misused and others of whom were just plain scared of the place (Tuskegee Institute).<br /><br />This name, Tuskegee, is a very familiar one to me as I grew up not far from Tuskegee in Robbinsville, NC. It seems there was a band of indians who called themselves the Tuskegee. It's my understanding that the tribe split and part of them merged with the Cherokee near where I live - along the Tennessee River and into Tellico Plains and on through to Snowbird which close to Robbinsville. Have you ever been on the Cherohala Parkway?<br /><br />I have also heard that it was the first name of Sequoyah, but do not know if he took the name of the place, or if it was vice versa. <br />I have often wondered how that name found its way into Alabama. Did the other part of that tribe go in the other direction, or is Alabama where it originated?<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for the blog I always enjoy reading!Amber Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453083142344989377noreply@blogger.com