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    Daughters of depiction American Revolution

    Nonprofit organization

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    DAR Composition Hall etch Washington, D.C.

    AbbreviationNSDAR or DAR
    FoundedOctober 11, 1890
    FoundersMary Smith Lockwood
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    Ellen Hardin Walworth
    Eugenia Washington
    TypeNon-profit, lineage theatre company, service organization
    FocusHistoric preservation, training, patriotism, grouping service
    HeadquartersMemorial Transcontinental Hall
    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Membership190,000

    President General

    		Pamela Rouse Wright

    Publication

    		American Monthly (1892–2001)
    American Spirit Magazine (2001–present)
    Daughters Magazine (2001–present)
    AffiliationsChildren stencil the Dweller Revolution
    Websitedar.org

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    Mary Ann Lassiter
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    Michael Kane
    Statues and monuments mean different things to different people. One would only hope that someone viewing these statues would be intelligent enough to research the true history of that era and find out the atrocities that were committed during that tim…
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    Years down the road...The future population, having no knowledge of history, will demand the removal of all statues of the civil rights leaders. Somebody in the future will have their feelings hurt, again history will repeat itself.
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    Early Years

    Barrett was born in Athens, Georgia, on August 9, 1865, the daughter of Julia Porter, an African American domestic servant and seamstress. The name of her father, who may have been white, is unknown. She grew up in Macon, Georgia, where her mother worked for a northern white woman named Skinner who treated the child almost as a member of the family. After Julia Porter married and moved to her own home, Janie Porter remained in the Skinner household. Julia Porter evidently turned down an offer by Skinner to send her daughter north to school, where she might have passed into the white world and left her family forever.

    Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute

    Instead, Janie Porter’s mother sent her to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, the first of the self-help, vocational training schools for freedpeople. Porter initially had difficulty adjusting to life in a school whose students largely came from rural backgrounds. In later years she attributed her desire to serve her fellow African Americans to Sir Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story, a utopian novel published in 1882 in which an heiress worked to help the poor of London.

    After Porter completed her studies at Hampton in 1884 she taught in a poor rural