Freedom Never Dies Lake Orienta 2/19/13 1

June 27, 1950 Born in Manhattan, NY Adopted – age 10 days Raised in Sanford, FL Only child Mother died at age 5

3 Winifred Dorsett, Birth Mother, Brooklyn, N.Y. Gave me up for adoption (deceased)

4 Winifred Dorsett, Birth other, Brooklyn, N.Y. Gave me up for adoption (deceased) Ulysses and Edna Burton, who buried Civil Rights Activist Harry T. Moore, adopted me in (deceased)

7 Cleo Alexander Burton my stepmother. She raised me from age 11 to 18. Harry T. Moore was her 1 st grade teacher. (She will be 93 in March 2013)

Burton’s Funeral Home Sanford, Florida 8 This was my home. I grew up here.

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Jan. 2, 1944 – Willie James Howard killed in Live Oak, Florida. My mother knew of him and his family – Baby Alleyne (Ingrid Burton) born and adopted Dec. 25, 1951 – Harry T. Moore and wife are murdered in Mim, FL May 17, Brown vs. Board of Education ; segregation in public school is unconstitutional Aug – Emit Till, age 14 was killed Dec. 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks went to jail

Harry T. Moore Paved the way for the '60s civil rights movement by championing equal pay for black teachers, Organized the black vote, and Publicly condemned racist attitudes and actions of local, state and national officials.

On Christmas Day 1951 On Christmas Day1951, the Moores’ house was bombed. He and his wife were killed. It was “the bomb heard around the world.”

Harry T. Moore’s Funeral He was buried in Mims, Fla. by Burton’s Funeral Home.

14 The Ballad of Harry T. Moore By Langston Hughes Sung by “Sweet Honey In the Rock”

Sept – Little Rock 9 attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock Ark. Fe b – Sit ins begin May 4, 1961 – Freedom Riders begin to ride through the south on busses June 12, 1963 – Medgar Evers is murdered

April 28, 1963 – March on Washington “I Have A Dream” July 2, Civil Rights Bill signed by the President March 7, Bloody Sunday Sept. 24, 1965 – Affirmative Action July 16, 1960 – Greenville 8 go to jail

The Little Rock

18 Joan Maddison July 16, 1960 The Greenville 8 go to jail Jesse Jackson

June 5, 1964 I was 14 The glass door of M. L. K.’s rented beach cottage in St. Augustine, Fla., was shot into. This was the summer before I integrated schools.

My Godfather, Dr. George H. Starke, The only black doctor in Seminole County

Fall 1964 I was asked if I wanted to go to the “white” school. I replied, “Yes!” without really thinking about it.

“integrate” mingle socialize Associate Jumble Muddle up 22

1964 ; Mid Year One day my daddy said, “Baby, how would you like to go to the “white” school?” I replied, “Yes!” without really thinking about it.

My mother was opposed because she knew that people were being killed for participating in the Civil Rights movement.

Advice for your enemies: “Just look at them and smile.”

The night before… I received an anonymous phone call from a white woman warning me not to go to the “white” school.

The very next day… My daddy drove me to Sanford Jr. High. I was escorted into the building by the Police. I told no one about the phone call.

Sanford Jr. High, I remember the very long sidewalk in front of the school.

“courage” A perfect sensibility to the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

“Non-voilence” I was never trained for it, but I went through as if I had been. Someone else carried me through.

Courage & Non-Violence

COURAGE 32

If you can keep your head…

“If” by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 34

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: 35

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, 36

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: 37

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, 38

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more--- you'll be a Man, my son! 39

“Ignorance is bliss.” “Ignorance is bliss.” “Ignorance is bliss.” “Ignorance is bliss.” “Ignorance is bliss.” 40

Courage: Eight of us integrated Seminole High School in 1965.

Courage: The Water Incident that I never told anyone about.

“My definition of a racist is simply a person who has not met me yet.”

INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, 44

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. 45 I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. 46

47 Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

48 Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade,

49 And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

50 It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll.

51 I am the master of my fate:

52 I am the captain of my soul. By William Ernest Henley

It takes courage and love to effect change in the face of danger. I did it without even thinking that I was in danger.

…caused Winifred Dorsett to give me up for adoption so that I could have more in life than she could give me given her circumstances. “Love…”

…caused the owners of Burton’s Funeral Home to adopt me and promise Winnie that I would be well cared for and received a good education. “Love…”

56 …is why Harry T. Moore risked and untimately gave his life for the Civil Rights Movement “Love…”

57 “Love…” …is why I said “Yes” to INTEGRATION when I was 14 years old, even when people were being killed for it.

…is why my parents allowed me to take that dangerous step to integrate schools in Seminiole County “Love…”

59 When Harry T. Moore’s body was buried in the ground he became a seed of freedom. Edna Burton. Ulysses S. Burton

60 “And this he says, our Harry Moore, As from the grave he cries:

61 “No bomb can kill the dreams I hold…” Age 6 months, 1951 Age 10, 1960 Age 18, 1968

62 “ for freedom Never Dies!” Carmelita Ayana University of Fla. Jasmín René F.A.M.U. Asha Consuelo Univ. of South Fla. Ron Nathan F.A.M.U Principal of Altermese Bentley Elementary in Sanford, Florida Ingrid Burton Nathan Florida Southern College

63 Freedom never dies, I say.

64 NEVER DIES FREEDOM

65 INGRID BURTON NATHAN (the baby Herod could not kill) Born in Manhattan, N. Y. to Winifred Dorsett and Michael Turner on June 27, 1950 Adopted by Ulysses and Edna Burton, funeral directors, in Sanford, FL Raised and nurtured by Ulysses Burtton and Cleo Alexander Burton after Edna’s death in Spanish Teacher for 38 years; M. Ed. Retired in 2009; came out in 2012 Married to Ron Nathan Mother of 4 Minister of Music Inspiration to Many Integrated Sanford Jr. High in 1964 at the age of 14 Integrated Seminole High in Graduated with Honors in Graduated from Florida Southern College in 1972 with honors and a B. A. in Spanish God-daughter of Dr. George H. Starke, Biracial Committee Chair Person