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   From: Bodines@Reagan.net   
      
   From the Plantation to the White House   
      
   In 1850, the master of a South Carolina estate sold a 6-year-old slave girl   
   named Melvinia for $475 and shipped her to a three-slave estate in Georgia.   
   When she was a teenager, she had a child with a white man-an unremarkable   
   event in the sad history of slavery, except that Melvinia and her child's   
   father are the great-great-great-grandparents of Michelle Obama. The New   
   York Times has uncovered this unknown portion of Michelle's family history.   
   Melvinia's son, Dolphus, migrated to Birmingham in 1888 and co-founded the   
   Trinity Baptist Church, which helped lead the civil rights movement and   
   still exists today. He died at the age of 91 in 1950, and his obituary   
   appeared in the same issue of The Birmingham World as an article with the   
   historic headline, "U.S. court Bans Segregation in Diners and Higher   
   Education."   
      
   Read it at The New York Times   
   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/us/politics/08genealogy.html?_   
   =1&hp=&pagewanted=all   
      
   From the cotton fields to the White House. The American dream is alive...   
   God Bless You Mrs. Obama!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)