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TEXAS INFORMER
Crockett and East Texas News
by
Billy "Hollywood" Groves
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Billy
"Hollywood" Groves
Judge “Hang Em High Harry”
The Federal Judge, who
struck down President Obama’s Health
Care law in a Richmond, Virginia court
recently, has an unusual nickname
for a judge, “Hang ‘Em High Harry”. U.S.
District Judge Henry E. Hudson
supposedly earned that nickname because
of his tough stand against crime from
the bench. As an African American male,
I am highly offended by a U.S. Federal
judge in Virginia with that nickname.
For starters, Virginia has a long
history of abusing African Americans in
their state. As one of the original
breakaway Confederate States of America,
Virginia used lynching of black people
as a way to control them. As a matter of
fact the original Lynch Law, which
allowed people to hang Black people
without a trial, started in Virginia. It
comes as no surprise that a Republican
Judge with a nickname like “Hang ‘Em
High Harry” would have a problem with
any law proposed by an African American
president of the United States of
America. God Bless America!
Until next time ~ Billy
“Hollywood” Groves
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Cuney, Texas History
On March 13,
1919, Javance Cuney Boykin was
the first baby born in Cuney,
Texas. Cuney is one of the few
black towns in Texas. After the
Civil War, around 1865. freed
slaves began to settle the area.
In 1914 H. L. Price, who at the
time was a cashier at the
Palestine, Texas Farmers and
Citizens Savings Bank, go
together with other black
investors. They formed a
development company and platted
a town site. It was named for
Price’s son Cuney Price who in
turn, was named for Norris
Wright Cuney, a prominent black
politician and head of the
Republican Party. Javance
said his father, Dr. Henry
Cleveland Boykin, was one of the
investors that H. L. Price
talked into moving to Cuney.
A sawmill was setup in the area
to help build the town. The
Cuney Post Office was authorized
by the government in 1917 and
located to the south of highway
140 by the early 1920s. (Taken
from live interview with Javance
and recorded in the January 2004
issue of the Cherokee County
Informer.
Below photograph of historical
marker in
Cuney, Texas. |
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