The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 24

twi aH SUNDAY AIK3FT 10 2003 1)2 IN BRIEF WDVX temporariy changes location to AndersonvMe Popular East Tfcnnessee radio station WDVX temporarily went off the air for almost 10 hours Saturday when it moved to a temporary location in Andersonville General manager Tbny Iawson said the move had been coming fix quite some time after a 30-day eviction notice by Fax Inn Campground the place the station has been for most of its six-year history were unable to come to terms with Fax Inn Campground and we moved to an interim Lawson said For the next several months WDVX will be stationed out of Arcadian Springs in Andersonville Lawson said A is expecting to move into its new location in downtown Knoxville at the former on Gay Street by December Lawson said Man 88 dies after crash heart attack suspected An 88-year-old man died Saturday from injuries in an aryufent that happened tfv day before the Ifennessee Highway Patrol said favored slavery There had been some sort of exchange between Lincoln and Johnson with the president commending him for freeing his slaves of course there was his famous speech in 1864 called the since he talks of leading the freed slaves to the Promised Johnson says Bergeron was typical of the white Southerner of the period was very racist But at the same time there was a complicated layer about Johnson He was antagonistic toward slave owners which was basically a class antagonism He considered the Southern aristocrat really bad leading the nation into wan even though he was a slave owner Andrew Johnson never plowed an acre of land He had slaves as domestics (servants) But it is slavery nonetheless And remember he is in Greeneville not West Tennessee where the slave economy By the time 1866 rolled around and Johnson was in the White House he was less sympathetic to the notion of punishing the South is for the 13th Amendment but he thinks the war has really settled the issue He thinks slavery is a bad institution and it is cut and dried: Get rid of it But at the him time be thinks all this should be left up to the states He is for rights 13th Amendment was ratified in his first term but then he turns right around and says the states should the 20th century and on up until the 1950s blacks could celebrate in Chilhowee Park rally on that day They were not allowed in the pant at any other times of the yean Margaret Gaiter 77 and Almetor King 68 are two who remember the wonderful times they had at Chilhowee on Aug 8 King who graduated from Austin High School in 1953 says some of her fondest childhood memories are the times spent at Chilhowee Park on Aug 8 as long as I live I will never forget it that enjoyable timp at Chilhowee Park Those who let us go I think they would have ever let us go they knew how much we enjoyed she says Gaiter a retired school teacher says the gatherings in Chilhowee to ride tiie many rides and participate in the games of chance and to eat were quite tiie event fix young people in the 1950s was the highlight of the year for she says would see all of your friends In addition there was more significance fix the adults in the black community saw this as freedom Day It was a celebration when blacks in this area were says Gaiter grew up in a segregated situation and we just thought this was the way it was supposed to be But you wondered about things" And perhaps hovering the collective consciousness of those gathered at Chilhowee were memories of tiie words from that old spiritual that blue-dad black soldiers sang as they marched to the sound of guns during the Civil War freedom Oh freedomOh freedom over meAnd before HI be a slave 111 be buried in my graveAnd go home to my Lord and be Senior writer Fred Brown may be reached at 865-342-6427 JOURNAL from B1 did not get to meet the president When Roosevelt learned of William a former slave of President Johnson he sent a Secret Service agent to Knoxville to drive William to Washington In a small gathering at the White House Roosevelt presented William with the silverheaded cane William died in 1943 at the age of 87 The major newspapers reported his death most mentioning the prized cane which he kept at the head of his bed until the day he died With the freeing of his slaves Johnson set in motion a celebration that is 140 years old this month But mysteries still Unger How did the celebration spread from Greeneville to other communities across East Tennessee and Kentucky? Shedenna Dockery of Newport with the Turner Committee and Chioma Adaku of Knoxville who is working to produce a rinetimgnfary nn Emancipation Day as well as other buadc history have joined BUI Murrah of Knoxville Legal Aid in trying to find answers to these questions and others surrounding slaves and Freedom Day as Aug 8 is known in Tennessee and elsewhere In addition Dockery Adaku and Murrah are working with a group of Community Economic Development organizations that has put together a new African-American Tuk Force which Adaku diairs The task force is trying to pull together black community organizations in the region to help spread the word about the day as well as locate more of its history throughout the region Several other communities in East Tennessee are observing Aug 8 as day Knoxville Newport Greeneville and Johnson City sponsored celebrations this yean The event was also observed in Harlan and Paducah Ky as well as other cities and towns in Tennessee But just how widespread St be is an unknown just like much of its past much is known about Aug 8" says Murrah is silent in the history books but it is a living history That side is very loud and it is obvious it is he says "There is almost nothing written about the daj but it is a real jewel of he says we know has been handed down from generation to generation" One of the first known celebrations of Aug 8 came in 1871 when former President Johnson rode out to Tusculum College near Greeneville to address a i of former slaves and i who had come to commemorate the event with apicnic One of the ironies surrounding tiie Emancipation Proclamation is that when Lincoln signed it in 1863 the bold measure freed the slaves only in states that were not occupied by the federal government At that time Tennessee was under federal control Slaves did not become officially free in Tennessee until the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery in America was ratified Dec 6 1865 Dr Paul Bergeron retired UnivCTsity of Tbnnessee historian and former editor of the Johnson Papers at UT says Johnson never documented or said anything about freeing his slaves did this orally apparently He did make some kind of public acknowledgement in August of '63 that he no longer Rdbert Miller 31 Shannon Miller 26 and TVila Pat Miller 57 all of Tfelfbrd are being held the Washington County Detention Center pending a bond hearing Monday Sheriff Ed Graybeal said a pediatrician who treated the child suspected abuse and contacted authorities When investigators asked the girl where she dept she responded by going to the dog cage he said Ihe child was periodically kept in the cage during the day as well Graybeal said The girl and her 2-yearold brother were taken into protective custody Investigators said there were no signs of injury on the child who appeared well nourished Attorney Be9 receives prestigious legal award Knoxville lawyer James AJL Bell was recently presented with an award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Bell was selected for the Robert C-Heeney Memorial Award which the NACDL describes as its most prestigious award given to a criminal defense attorney who best exemplifies the gpals and values of the organization and the legal pmftwnw NACDL has more than KX000 members and 65 affilialy nrganivatirme Bell has served in many capacities for the NACDL including two terms on its board of directors and three temw a parliamcntarian-Bell has also been president of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers the state affiliate of NACDL He is an elected fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers and a founding member of the National College fix DUI Defense Bell was a unanimous choice fix the Heeney award which was presented at annual meeting in Denver Tfenn was driving on Highway 27 at Mountain in Minty when he had a heart attack and went off the right side of the road the THP said His 1986 Tbyota pickup truck struck a tree and he was taken to a hospital According to the report Vanderpool was not wearing a safety belt Authorities say gfri 5 was made to sleep in dog cage JOHNSON aiY The parents and a i okl gin were charged with aggravated child abuse after aithnritiif raid tfv child had been cage own courses" In TWag Fmanriparinn Day is known as A Celebration of It is celebrated in that state and elsewhere in June because the proclamation was read to die people in Junel86SL In Knoxville the day has pretty much been celebrated as simply Aug 8 a time fix picnics and reunions However in the early part of Sunday mph mph Knoxville through 5 pun yesterday 84V Mean 75 Normal 78 Records 99 0980) 56 0989) WEDNESDAY THUISDAY Some sun chance Chancafara forat-storm In the t-storm in the pm afternoon AM TGr 89 TS9 TODAY TONIGHT Clouds and sun pjn t-storm In spots 82 Partly to mostly cloudy Today's weather 24hnandhg5pmyesfaRfay 090 Monthtodate 399" fawtodale v-SSArfLi 78 YMysurptui 9t63T YestordayatSpm -'54 2991 faffing Temperatures are today's highs 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