SER BOXLEY INFORMS COMMUNITY LEA

SER BOXLEY INFORMS COMMUNITY LEADERS OF DELETIONS FROM HIS ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Greetings all!

You already have the text of my: Bringing the Natchez Trace Black History Through The Back Door.

Below is the text of an email that has been sent and will continue to be sent out with the issue paper I sent ya'll already. Mayor Philip West was the greatest presenter at yesterday's Natchez Trace Parkway Ceremony in Natchez because he put the Forks of the Roads in the Natchez Trace history where it historically belongs. It belongs as the Natchez Trace's terminus in Natchez. That is why Former First Lady Hillary Clinton's White House Council on Millennium Trails officially designated the Forks of the Roads streets junctures a Millennium 2000 Trail. Now is the time to get the official logo of that designation up on Liberty Road, St. Catherine Street and business 61 Old Washington Road.

Any shakers and movers out there ready to get this done? I have the official designation certificate in red, white and blue.

On 5-21-05 at the grand ceremony in Natchez for the opening of Natchez Trace Parkway into Natchez Mississippi I heard Senator Trent Lott say that the Natchez Trace history is about "our history." I heard others speak about the Natchez Trace being about the history of America and the southwest. I head some speak about the Natchez Trace being the history of the Chickasaw, Kentucky Boatmen, pioneer migrants and Civil War. For a whole week leading up to the ceremonies in Clinton and Natchez Mississippi, I read day after day various newspapers' accounts and stories about the Natchez Trace’s history. Only one had a small amount of ink about the Natchez Trace speaking to African descendants' history. The Jackson Clarion Legion included a few comments from a lengthy statement my person made to them in response to a phone call from one of their reporters. This inclusion centered on the enslaved persons' cemetery at Mt. Locust located between mile posts 15 and 16 on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Below is an issue paper my person prepared and released on May 18, 2005. The local Natchez newspaper, the Natchez Democrat printed it in what they call the "Top of the Morning." The only problem was they edited out crucial parts of my issues statements and facts.

For your understanding and comprehension, I have sent you the entire issue paper as it originally was written.

This issue of the Natchez Trace Parkway deletions and omission of the history of African descendants is just another case in my whole struggle for equal history and tourism democracy in Southwest Mississippi.

I choose to use the Forks of the Roads enslavement markets sites preservation, presentation and interpretation as the great equalizer against the one sided history that prevails in ways that make it look like Europeans descendants accomplished all the development and cultural history here "all by themselves."

You can help achieve history and tourism democracy in the Natchez area and at the original terminus entry of the Natchez Trace by supporting the current Mayor of Natchez effort to obtain 2 to 3 millions dollars to build a slavery museum and interpretive center at the Forks of the Roads.

Contact whoever you think you should contact, including all of Mississippi's Congressional delegation and the National Park Service Director. But your failure to act allows all of them to continue to go on preserving, presenting and interpreting history in this area through "blue eyes," even if the operatives include persons whose skin color looks "Black."

Ser Seshs Ab Heter-CM Boxley

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