Montgomery Deep History

03/11/2024

New production just dropped… full video

https://youtu.be/g3TMJlk7vTQ?si=98iZTcrtEN1M2Lmj

09/07/2024

Project 2025 Study

05/07/2024

MGM Deep History Nugget in the State of Alabama July 4, 1881:

Just as July since 1776 had always been a great month of remembrance for the Independence of America from its mother, England (or the ancient land of Albion), in like manner, Black people in America almost a century later would be able to finally have their own sense of independence from a peculiar form of bo***ge that some thought God would allow to go on for a couple thousand years into the future. Black people began to make speedy preparations to reconnect with their ancestors’ homeland Africa for economic purposes and trade—even well before the arrival of Marcus Garvey but concurrent with the Berlin Conference of 1884, which beckoned European countries to meet for the purpose of dividing up Africa for the exploitation of its resources. In the meantime, Black people in Alabama exercised their independence and, with the assistance of the Freedman’s Bureau program, founded Lincoln Normal School (Alabama State University) in July 18, 1867 and Tuskegee Normal School (Tuskegee University) in July 4 1881. Both of these schools were part of the Normal school program in Alabama.

On this day we would like to highlight and honor Tuskegee University for 143 years of excellence and the vast impact it has made across the entire globe, including its intercontinental involvement in World War II that saved millions of lives along with gaining a victory for the American people!!! We salute you TU!!!

19/06/2024

Happy Juneteenth!

May we never forget those who were forgotten in Texas. May we never forget the disputes over slave contracts in lower and higher courts that occurred in the Lone Star state many months and years after June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth) with those who still made the attempt thereafter to purchase Black people as slaves.

It was hard to break the South from the addiction of building wealth from the free labor of Black people. Once that was period was officially over, there came from the nation at large a stronger effort of bringing gruesome terror upon the Natives in the western frontier for the purpose of U.S. expansion.

In the mean time, Southern states would deploy tactics to recapture free labor from a considerable number of Black men, women, and children by capitalizing on the syntax of the 13th Amendment of the Constitution by instituting Pig Laws and Black Codes in order to funnel them into a new system–convict leasing. This would lead to another 50 plus years of free labor from those of whom were mostly of African descent. Some research reports that nearly 30,000 Black lives were lost due to harsh work conditions of the convict leasing program. On the other hand, from Juneteenth up until 100 years into the future, thousands of other Black lives would be lost from lynchings that occurred all over the nation.

Having faced voter's discrimination and various other local measures that sought to subject Black people to peonage, Alabama citizens from Wilcox, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, and Montgomery counties would utilize media of the day that would draw global attention to the difficulties Black people had long faced thereby impacting federal, state, and local law until this present day.

06/01/2024

Hear the inspiring story of the inception of Montgomery Deep History including key figures who were motivational factors of the organization’s founding on the Gumptown Podcast.

27/12/2023

What was on sale December 25 in Montgomery and the River Region only five years prior to the inception of Alabama State University? Find out in our production “The Christmas Holy Day & American Slavery” on our YouTube channel.

25/12/2023

Christmas time for the River Region and Tri-County areas of Montgomery, Autauga, and Elmore (even as far as Macon) counties were quite busy with the sale of Black slaves, especially the sale of children. The business was so pervasive and lucrative that even Christian Baptists of the River Region posted ads for the sale of children, alongside real estate and livestock. Black slaves of the area, having been brought from West Africa and processed through the Gulf of Mexico into the Alabama River, were unfamiliar with Christmas time traditions from their African perspectives. However, they soon learned to practice the Christmas time gift-giving after they had been passed around as Christmas gifts themselves for decades between 1819 and 1863, since they were considered property and already in the wills of careful slave holders. Be sure to pay attention to the surnames of River Region slave holders in the newspaper clippings featured in this production.

American slavery was a business that had to managed nearly 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Slave owners who continued to work on Sundays or on the Christmas h...