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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . and Margaret Mitchell's Promised Land ---Is One In The Same !
By Twomucht, OurTown National News Editor,
As we had reflected the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, with Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind', and on Monday, celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Holiday, these two Georgia icons, are tied closer together by a common place, known as 'The Promised Land' !
Regardless of where you are located in the world, it is sure that you have heard people refer to making their efforts a success, if they make it to 'The Promised Land'. Every professional team, political party, or individual journey, has been associated with the completion of reaching some intangible place in our minds, as 'The Promised Land' .
Ever since Moses, who led his people from bondage, and led them to this ionic and spiritual place, man has used this imaginary place of peace as a destination, where dreams are satisfied, and all pain subsided. For mankind is at peace, because their struggles and tribulations have led them to the 'Promised Land' !
Well, there is a tangible place in Gwinnett County, Georgia , that is recognized by the state as a 'Real Place'. It is this former Civil War Plantation, that two Georgia natives have used to leave their impressionable mark of their existence on the world. It is Thomas Maguire's Promised Land !
In 1820, Thomas Maguire , an Irish immigrant, came to America to leave a mark of his existence, as well. Through a land lottery by Gwinnett County, in an attempt to attract solid White settlers to colonize this former Cherokee land, he was a winner of 250 acres, that would become his own, if he homesteaded the property for a period of time. So, he did.
However, shortly after the initial settlers started to till the land, gold was discovered in north Georgia, in a small city, named Dalonaga.
In turn, some of Thomas Maguire's neighbors grew restless, and pulled up their stakes, in their pursuit of gold riches, which allowed Maguire to attain their acquired 250 acre plots.
Within a couple of more years, a discovery of gold in a wilderness city called San Fransisco, California, Maguire continued to add to his property, until it had amassed about 1000 acres.
At that time, he named his new found plantation, "The Promised Land", due to the fertile soil, where he could grow numerous nutritional crops, for his family and community. From this point forward, Thomas Maguire used his land owner platform for power control in the virgin county of Gwinnett. He then focused to divide his time on his plantation and on the local political stage.
Unbeknowst to him then, but Mr. Thomas Maguire's mark was ensured when he started to keep a daily diary, (farm journal), that today is recognized as about 40% of Margaret Mitchell's worldwide successful novel, and movie that has amassed over 2.9 billion dollars.
The daily journal has an amazing ability to give you a glimpse of everyday life, when General Sherman started his infamous, 'March To The Sea', that made a stop at , the Promised Land.
The entries are captured with all the emotions and suspense of the times. It is the story ingredients of a hollywood movie, so that is why Margaret Mitchell visited the plantation every weekend, in the late 1920's, when she was researching her, "Gone With The Wind" !
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind , the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.
Unfortunately, Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see a movie on the evening of August 11, 1949.
She died at Grady Hospital five days later without regaining consciousness.
The driver, Hugh Gravitt, was an off-duty taxi driver who was driving his personal vehicle when he struck Mitchell. After the accident, Gravitt was arrested for drunken driving and released on a $5,450 bond until Mitchell's death.
It was discovered that he had been cited 23 times previously for traffic violations. The Governor of Georgia, Herman Talmadge , later announced that the state would tighten regulations for licensing taxi drivers. Gravitt was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 4 months in jail.
Here is a you tube link about Mrs. Mitchell below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lowKmd-7Y
Likewise, The Promised Land Plantation is also very obviously reffered to in Dr. Martin Luther King's famous last speech.
Although, he is associated with the marches in Salma Alabama, and his death at the Lorraine Hotel in TN., Dr. Martin Luther King was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. And to many scholars surprise, is that he was not talking about Mt. St. Helen, or Mt. McKinnsey. Furthermore, he was not talking about the Himmalayas either, when he referenced his mountain top journey.
He was talking about Stone Mountain, the largest granite mountain in the world, that was during his lifetime, was a KKK rallying location,, and did not allow any black person to ever walk to the top.
He was drained, and he was tired of all the death threats that night when he spoke,. He knew he was coming back home to Atlanta, in a plane, a train, or in a box.
Unfortunately, the latter proved true. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman and pastor , activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of Civil and Political Rights for the Blacks in America.
Even today, if you trek up Stone Mountain by foot, or ride the skylift, then if you focus your attention through a telescope, (a few poor quailty scopes are at the peak), you too can see...'The Promised Land. The oldest former Civil War plantation of hope that is located in the southern end of Gwinnett County, that is today owned by a tri-racial minority family, named the Livseys'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8
This past week, the descendants of Thomas Maguire and Robert Livsey, (the tri-racial family who owns the plantation today), were honored by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans in Conyers, to come together, in an attempt to refurbish Thomas Maguire's house, and maintain his final grave site, while showing the world that two races and families can..."Get Along Together" !
Source(http://www.ourtown.com/snellvillega/article/2012/1/14/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-margaret-mitchells-promised-land-is-one-in-the-same.html)
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As we had reflected the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, with Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind', and on Monday, celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Holiday, these two Georgia icons, are tied closer together by a common place, known as 'The Promised Land' !
Regardless of where you are located in the world, it is sure that you have heard people refer to making their efforts a success, if they make it to 'The Promised Land'. Every professional team, political party, or individual journey, has been associated with the completion of reaching some intangible place in our minds, as 'The Promised Land' .
Ever since Moses, who led his people from bondage, and led them to this ionic and spiritual place, man has used this imaginary place of peace as a destination, where dreams are satisfied, and all pain subsided. For mankind is at peace, because their struggles and tribulations have led them to the 'Promised Land' !
Well, there is a tangible place in Gwinnett County, Georgia , that is recognized by the state as a 'Real Place'. It is this former Civil War Plantation, that two Georgia natives have used to leave their impressionable mark of their existence on the world. It is Thomas Maguire's Promised Land !
In 1820, Thomas Maguire , an Irish immigrant, came to America to leave a mark of his existence, as well. Through a land lottery by Gwinnett County, in an attempt to attract solid White settlers to colonize this former Cherokee land, he was a winner of 250 acres, that would become his own, if he homesteaded the property for a period of time. So, he did.
However, shortly after the initial settlers started to till the land, gold was discovered in north Georgia, in a small city, named Dalonaga.
In turn, some of Thomas Maguire's neighbors grew restless, and pulled up their stakes, in their pursuit of gold riches, which allowed Maguire to attain their acquired 250 acre plots.
Within a couple of more years, a discovery of gold in a wilderness city called San Fransisco, California, Maguire continued to add to his property, until it had amassed about 1000 acres.
At that time, he named his new found plantation, "The Promised Land", due to the fertile soil, where he could grow numerous nutritional crops, for his family and community. From this point forward, Thomas Maguire used his land owner platform for power control in the virgin county of Gwinnett. He then focused to divide his time on his plantation and on the local political stage.
Unbeknowst to him then, but Mr. Thomas Maguire's mark was ensured when he started to keep a daily diary, (farm journal), that today is recognized as about 40% of Margaret Mitchell's worldwide successful novel, and movie that has amassed over 2.9 billion dollars.
The daily journal has an amazing ability to give you a glimpse of everyday life, when General Sherman started his infamous, 'March To The Sea', that made a stop at , the Promised Land.
The entries are captured with all the emotions and suspense of the times. It is the story ingredients of a hollywood movie, so that is why Margaret Mitchell visited the plantation every weekend, in the late 1920's, when she was researching her, "Gone With The Wind" !
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind , the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.
Unfortunately, Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see a movie on the evening of August 11, 1949.
She died at Grady Hospital five days later without regaining consciousness.
The driver, Hugh Gravitt, was an off-duty taxi driver who was driving his personal vehicle when he struck Mitchell. After the accident, Gravitt was arrested for drunken driving and released on a $5,450 bond until Mitchell's death.
It was discovered that he had been cited 23 times previously for traffic violations. The Governor of Georgia, Herman Talmadge , later announced that the state would tighten regulations for licensing taxi drivers. Gravitt was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 4 months in jail.
Here is a you tube link about Mrs. Mitchell below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lowKmd-7Y
Likewise, The Promised Land Plantation is also very obviously reffered to in Dr. Martin Luther King's famous last speech.
Although, he is associated with the marches in Salma Alabama, and his death at the Lorraine Hotel in TN., Dr. Martin Luther King was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. And to many scholars surprise, is that he was not talking about Mt. St. Helen, or Mt. McKinnsey. Furthermore, he was not talking about the Himmalayas either, when he referenced his mountain top journey.
He was talking about Stone Mountain, the largest granite mountain in the world, that was during his lifetime, was a KKK rallying location,, and did not allow any black person to ever walk to the top.
He was drained, and he was tired of all the death threats that night when he spoke,. He knew he was coming back home to Atlanta, in a plane, a train, or in a box.
Unfortunately, the latter proved true. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman and pastor , activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of Civil and Political Rights for the Blacks in America.
Even today, if you trek up Stone Mountain by foot, or ride the skylift, then if you focus your attention through a telescope, (a few poor quailty scopes are at the peak), you too can see...'The Promised Land. The oldest former Civil War plantation of hope that is located in the southern end of Gwinnett County, that is today owned by a tri-racial minority family, named the Livseys'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8
This past week, the descendants of Thomas Maguire and Robert Livsey, (the tri-racial family who owns the plantation today), were honored by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans in Conyers, to come together, in an attempt to refurbish Thomas Maguire's house, and maintain his final grave site, while showing the world that two races and families can..."Get Along Together" !
Source(http://www.ourtown.com/snellvillega/article/2012/1/14/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-margaret-mitchells-promised-land-is-one-in-the-same.html)
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