tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post7595786553813077848..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: Film As Mechanism For Social ChangeClayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-26023810508733977912013-01-01T16:25:35.561-07:002013-01-01T16:25:35.561-07:00Not quite: Charles Langston was the great uncle of...Not quite: Charles Langston was the great uncle of Langston Hughes.<br /><br />Yes, Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay, named after Cassius Marcellus Clay, who inherited slaves and then set them free so that he could become a prominent abolitionist.<br /><br />These family connections are often quite interesting: a distant ancestor of mine was the Colonial Armorer for New Haven Colony.Clayton Cramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-68237229462044818942013-01-01T15:12:11.342-07:002013-01-01T15:12:11.342-07:00Charles Langston is in a sense a Moses figure, the...Charles Langston is in a sense a Moses figure, then?<br /><br />And Charles Langston's grandson was the poet Langston Hughes (Harlem, aka Raisn in the Sun). There is an interconnectedness we don't learn about when these names come up. These names do not just happen by themselves. I knew about the boxer who had the name of a famous abolitionist who changed it to that of a famous slave-holder to express his liberation from southern slaveholders of 100 years before. But I did not learn about that in school. <br />Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-35303226038023470992013-01-01T11:26:41.841-07:002013-01-01T11:26:41.841-07:00Another good one is "Save the Cat" by Bl...Another good one is "Save the Cat" by Blake Snyder.coderpunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780416627307204084noreply@blogger.com