The Premier of Quebec, Pierre Trudeau (seated, center) watching a parade during St. Jean Baptiste Day in Montreal on June 24, 1968
Source: https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...h-our-eyes-june-25-1968-trudeau-doesnt-flinch
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The Premier of Quebec, Pierre Trudeau (seated, center) watching a parade during St. Jean Baptiste Day in Montreal on June 24, 1968
Source: https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...h-our-eyes-june-25-1968-trudeau-doesnt-flinch
Al Jolson (1886-1950), in Blackface, performing a skit about how much he still loves his mother, even after her disappearance in Featherston's Confederacy
Born in what was once Russian Lithuania (Kovno Governorate), now the Kingdom of Lithuania in Seredžius, Asa Yoelson was an entertainer who emigrated to the United States during the 1890's.
He found a career in being a stage performer, a singer, and an actor. Since he was born outside of the Unites States, he was not required to serve in the army during First Great War. Instead, he continued to perform in musicals and began to grow in popularity. During the 1930's he was contacted by former First Lady Flora Blackford to become involved in a series of public service announcements that brought attention to the plight of Blacks in the Confederacy. Although Jolson was a committed supporter of the Democrat Party, he was also a Jew who knew what it was like to experience prejudice and discrimination, which made him sympathetic to Blacks.
Even outside of his political involvements, Jolson often combined stories of the "Negro Experience" into his stage work. He would often dress up in Blackface and act out sad tales of persecution and hopeful plays of achieving a better life. Initially, audiences were uncomfortable and complained about not being entertained. However, as the Second Great War commenced and continued throughout the 1940's, people began to look at Jolson's work in a new light and supported his message. In one of his greatest moments of his career, he met Sennacherib during a tour and both men performed for the U.S. Army.
Once the war was over and the scale of the Population Reduction was known throughout the world, Jolson quit Blackface, saying that it was no longer funny nor appropriate to do and that only Blacks themselves can speak about their own stories of survival.
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The Natives of Sonora and Chihuahua in TL-191
Yoeme Confederates (left) and Tarahumara Confederates (right)
Well before the War of Secession, there were indigenous people who lived in Sonora and Chihuahua. The most common of these were the Yoeme (Yaqui) and the Tarahumara. Historically, both tribes have fought against the Spanish and Mexican governments, but once the Confederacy purchased Sonora and Chihuahua, the relationship between the Confederate government and the natives significantly improved. Although encouraged to immigrate to Sequoyah, the Confederates allowed both groups to remain within their ancestral lands and were left alone without much interference from the government.
Photograph of then-Colonel Obregon with Yoeme Confederate soldiers, ca. 1915
During the First Great War, there were many men from these tribes who answered the call to fight against the United States. The most well-known were usually from the Yoeme, who had a fierce independence streak compared to the Tarahumara. Obregon was tasked in leading the Yoeme regiment to successfully repel invading Unionites near Hermosillo. After the Confederate defeat in FGW, the Yoeme and Tarahumara were the only major native populations left in the Confederacy. When the Second Great War began, the old regiments were re-established and both tribes were involved in fighting against the United States. However, the Confederates would lose that war and the natives would be controlled under the victorious United States. They were surprised to hear that the U.S. government was willing to negotiate a truce with all native inhabitants of the former Confederacy as a form of peace and to start off U.S.- Indigenous relations in positive manner. This allowed most of the Yoeme, Tarahumara, and other minor indigenous Confederate groups to return back to their families and land.
Tarahumara Confederate practicing archery, pre-FGW
Group of Mayo Confederates, another group of natives that fought for the Confederacy during FGW.
Yoeme Confederates (left) and Tarahumara Confederates (right)
Well before the War of Secession, there were indigenous people who lived in Sonora and Chihuahua. The most common of these were the Yoeme (Yaqui) and the Tarahumara. Historically, both tribes have fought against the Spanish and Mexican governments, but once the Confederacy purchased Sonora and Chihuahua, the relationship between the Confederate government and the natives significantly improved. Although encouraged to immigrate to Sequoyah, the Confederates allowed both groups to remain within their ancestral lands and were left alone without much interference from the government.
Photograph of then-Colonel Obregon with Yoeme Confederate soldiers, ca. 1915
During the First Great War, there were many men from these tribes who answered the call to fight against the United States. The most well-known were usually from the Yoeme, who had a fierce independence streak compared to the Tarahumara. Obregon was tasked in leading the Yoeme regiment to successfully repel invading Unionites near Hermosillo. After the Confederate defeat in FGW, the Yoeme and Tarahumara were the only major native populations left in the Confederacy. When the Second Great War began, the old regiments were re-established and both tribes were involved in fighting against the United States. However, the Confederates would lose that war and the natives would be controlled under the victorious United States. They were surprised to hear that the U.S. government was willing to negotiate a truce with all native inhabitants of the former Confederacy as a form of peace and to start off U.S.- Indigenous relations in positive manner. This allowed most of the Yoeme, Tarahumara, and other minor indigenous Confederate groups to return back to their families and land.
Tarahumara Confederate practicing archery, pre-FGW
Group of Mayo Confederates, another group of natives that fought for the Confederacy during FGW.
I have family in Chihuahua, I wonder where I might be today (if not butterflied) in TL-191?The Natives of Sonora and Chihuahua in TL-191
Yoeme Confederates (left) and Tarahumara Confederates (right)
Well before the War of Secession, there were indigenous people who lived in Sonora and Chihuahua. The most common of these were the Yoeme (Yaqui) and the Tarahumara. Historically, both tribes have fought against the Spanish and Mexican governments, but once the Confederacy purchased Sonora and Chihuahua, the relationship between the Confederate government and the natives significantly improved. Although encouraged to immigrate to Sequoyah, the Confederates allowed both groups to remain within their ancestral lands and were left alone without much interference from the government.
Photograph of then-Colonel Obregon with Yoeme Confederate soldiers, ca. 1915
During the First Great War, there were many men from these tribes who answered the call to fight against the United States. The most well-known were usually from the Yoeme, who had a fierce independence streak compared to the Tarahumara. Obregon was tasked in leading the Yoeme regiment to successfully repel invading Unionites near Hermosillo. After the Confederate defeat in FGW, the Yoeme and Tarahumara were the only major native populations left in the Confederacy. When the Second Great War began, the old regiments were re-established and both tribes were involved in fighting against the United States. However, the Confederates would lose that war and the natives would be controlled under the victorious United States. They were surprised to hear that the U.S. government was willing to negotiate a truce with all native inhabitants of the former Confederacy as a form of peace and to start off U.S.- Indigenous relations in positive manner. This allowed most of the Yoeme, Tarahumara, and other minor indigenous Confederate groups to return back to their families and land.
Tarahumara Confederate practicing archery, pre-FGW
Group of Mayo Confederates, another group of natives that fought for the Confederacy during FGW.
Images of Christmas in TL-191
C.S. Army soldiers celebrating Christmas in southern Missouri, circa 1941.
German soldiers exchanging gifts while stationed on the Western Front, circa 1942.
US Army soldiers enjoying Hot Coco on the Rappahannock Line, circa 1943.
A soldier of the Imperial Russian Army standing next to a tree, circa New Years Eve of 1942.
British Soldiers having their Christmas Celebrations on the Western Front, circa 1941.
C.S. Army soldiers celebrating Christmas in southern Missouri, circa 1941.
German soldiers exchanging gifts while stationed on the Western Front, circa 1942.
US Army soldiers enjoying Hot Coco on the Rappahannock Line, circa 1943.
A soldier of the Imperial Russian Army standing next to a tree, circa New Years Eve of 1942.
British Soldiers having their Christmas Celebrations on the Western Front, circa 1941.
At the very least, you may have had relatives who were involved in both Great Wars. Whether or not they lived in order for you to still be born is a different question.
In the end, your family would be U.S. citizens with mixed ancestry that includes Native, Spanish, Mexican and Confederate.
I dunno about that: when Abner Dowling is forcing the Mayor of Snyder, Texas to look at the mass graves outside Camp Determination, he says the bodies had had gold fillings and gold teeth ripped out.
Not to mention that the CSA would have had a lot of "old money" from the plantation families ala Anne Colleton drifting around, at least enough to justify conspiracy theories and treasure hunts.
A Photo of Cassius Madison, the man who killed Jake Featherston and a lead speaker for the NAAACP, photographed in the 1970's for Life Magazine.
After the end of the War and the hubbub surrounding his shooting of the ex-president of the now-defunct CSA had died down, Cassius Madison took some time to sort out his future. His award of both $100,000 in cash (tax free) and citizenship of the USA ensured, alongside his fame, that he would not be destitute for some time, and the acquaintance of many prominent US politicians such as Flora Blackford and the new President Thomas Dewey would be useful assets in whatever path he chose.
Madison, perhaps out of a sense of optimism, first attempted to track down where his family had ended up after they'd been seized in a Freedom Party round up in Augusta, but once he learned via captured records, courtesy of assistance from retired General Abner Dowling in accessing them, that they had been shipped to Camp Determination, he accepted that his parents and sister were gone, and there really wasn't a point to looking backwards.
So instead, he decided to go forwards. Courtesy of his father, secretly Anne Colleton's former butler and a well-educated man (even by the standards of whites in the south, never mind blacks) Cassius was able to both read and write, and put himself to work getting an education. At the same time, he began reaching out via his connections to Congresswoman Blackford, to find other prominent blacks in the USA as well as gathering the accounts of Population Reduction survivors, ostensibly to help "keep the story straight" as he put it, to ensure Freedomite romanticizers would not be able to downplay or deny what had been done in their name.
More Importantly, to him at least, he also wanted to begin building the kind of organization that would allow Blacks to "Make a bigger stink" about the crimes not just of Featherston and the CSA, but the general anti-black attitudes as a whole, as he was under no illusions that few people in the USA had really cared about the plight of the blacks in the CSA until after they'd seen the photos from the captured Camp Determination and, even now, he knew, most whites in the occupied CSA, if they cared at all, were if anything PROUD of what had been done.
He sought to change that.
"I'm a big name because I killed Jake Featherston. Can't rightly think of no better way to piss on his grave than use that fame to raise black folks up."
-Cassius Madison, 1951 interview on the formation of the NAAACP
Madison's intellect, which he attributed to his late father, allowed him to excel in academic studies, earning him a scholarship to Yale University by 1948. Between his award for Featherston's killing and speaking fees he'd accrued giving speeches across the USA, he had a nice nest egg to sustain himself and more than enough money to pay off his schooling and put his other project to work. He also saw to it that the black Guerillas, such as his leader Gracchus, were able to obtain US citizenship with little to no hassle, several of whom ended up serving as bodyguards for him: more than a few Freedom Party die-hards wanted Cassiuns' head for killing Featherston.
Upon his graduation from his first 4-year education at Yale, Madison announced that, with the support of Government officials such as Flora Blackford and prominent black leaders in the USA, he was forming an organization: the North American Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAAACP. The Goals and Ambitions of this group would be as such: the elimination of racial discrimination in American society, the end of racial segregation in all professional and social fields, the uplifting and provision of education and advancement opportunities for all people of color, ad the insurance that no organization like the Freedom Party ever take root in the United States or her territories. He made clear he wasn't just thinking of Blacks: Native Americans, Latinos and Asians had also gotten a "raw deal" in the USA, and deserved as much of a chance to succeed.
"The founders of this nation said "All Men are Created Equal, and are endowed with inalienable rights." Well, I say it's about time the country started living up to that Promise. Are we gonna see George Washington as the founder of our country and its ideals? or are we gonna see him as just another rich Virginia slave owner?"
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Think Cassius ever married?
A Photo of Cassius Madison, the man who killed Jake Featherston and a lead speaker for the NAAACP, photographed in the 1970's for Life Magazine.
After the end of the War and the hubbub surrounding his shooting of the ex-president of the now-defunct CSA had died down, Cassius Madison took some time to sort out his future. His award of both $100,000 in cash (tax free) and citizenship of the USA ensured, alongside his fame, that he would not be destitute for some time, and the acquaintance of many prominent US politicians such as Flora Blackford and the new President Thomas Dewey would be useful assets in whatever path he chose.
Madison, perhaps out of a sense of optimism, first attempted to track down where his family had ended up after they'd been seized in a Freedom Party round up in Augusta, but once he learned via captured records, courtesy of assistance from retired General Abner Dowling in accessing them, that they had been shipped to Camp Determination, he accepted that his parents and sister were gone, and there really wasn't a point to looking backwards.
So instead, he decided to go forwards. Courtesy of his father, secretly Anne Colleton's former butler and a well-educated man (even by the standards of whites in the south, never mind blacks) Cassius was able to both read and write, and put himself to work getting an education. At the same time, he began reaching out via his connections to Congresswoman Blackford, to find other prominent blacks in the USA as well as gathering the accounts of Population Reduction survivors, ostensibly to help "keep the story straight" as he put it, to ensure Freedomite romanticizers would not be able to downplay or deny what had been done in their name.
More Importantly, to him at least, he also wanted to begin building the kind of organization that would allow Blacks to "Make a bigger stink" about the crimes not just of Featherston and the CSA, but the general anti-black attitudes as a whole, as he was under no illusions that few people in the USA had really cared about the plight of the blacks in the CSA until after they'd seen the photos from the captured Camp Determination and, even now, he knew, most whites in the occupied CSA, if they cared at all, were if anything PROUD of what had been done.
He sought to change that.
"I'm a big name because I killed Jake Featherston. Can't rightly think of no better way to piss on his grave than use that fame to raise black folks up."
-Cassius Madison, 1951 interview on the formation of the NAAACP
Madison's intellect, which he attributed to his late father, allowed him to excel in academic studies, earning him a scholarship to Yale University by 1948. Between his award for Featherston's killing and speaking fees he'd accrued giving speeches across the USA, he had a nice nest egg to sustain himself and more than enough money to pay off his schooling and put his other project to work. He also saw to it that the black Guerillas, such as his leader Gracchus, were able to obtain US citizenship with little to no hassle, several of whom ended up serving as bodyguards for him: more than a few Freedom Party die-hards wanted Cassiuns' head for killing Featherston.
Upon his graduation from his first 4-year education at Yale, Madison announced that, with the support of Government officials such as Flora Blackford and prominent black leaders in the USA, he was forming an organization: the North American Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAAACP. The Goals and Ambitions of this group would be as such: the elimination of racial discrimination in American society, the end of racial segregation in all professional and social fields, the uplifting and provision of education and advancement opportunities for all people of color, ad the insurance that no organization like the Freedom Party ever take root in the United States or her territories. He made clear he wasn't just thinking of Blacks: Native Americans, Latinos and Asians had also gotten a "raw deal" in the USA, and deserved as much of a chance to succeed.
"The founders of this nation said "All Men are Created Equal, and are endowed with inalienable rights." Well, I say it's about time the country started living up to that Promise. Are we gonna see George Washington as the founder of our country and its ideals? or are we gonna see him as just another rich Virginia slave owner?"
Hello everyone. I'm new here but I've been going on here for years now.
For my first post, it's mentioned--or at least implied--in the books and on this thread that Ukraine is a German-backed kingdom. While there is another post on this from a while back, I don't think Ukraine would be a monarchy ITTL per se, but definitely a Central Powers-backed dictatorship. I'm surprised no one has ever mentioned Pavlo Skoropadskyi on any TL-191 related thread I've seen.
Skoropadskyi was the Hetman of Ukraine briefly in 1918 during the Ukranian War of Independence. He had previously served with the Imperial Russian Army as a Cossack cavalry commander and belonged to a noble family, which included descendance from Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host Ivan Skoropadskyi. In OTL, Skoropadksyi was installed as the Hetman of Ukraine after the CP overthrew the Ukrainian People's Republic in April 1918 with a conservative leaning government in order for the CP to stabilize the country and for the CP to gain their concessions from Ukraine. This period is known as the Ukrainian State, or the Hetmanate. Ukraine stabilized for some time and cooperated with the CP under Skoropadskyi, but his rule was an uneasy one and he wasn't popular among most Ukrainians. After the defeat of the Central Powers in November, the writing was on the wall for him and he resigned the next month and lived the rest of his life in exile in Germany, later dying of wounds sustained in a bombing during WWII. After Skoropadskyi was deposed, the Directorate under Symon Petliura took over and revived the UPR.
With the Central Powers winning ITTL and Ukraine retaining independence, I'm planning on making an in-universe bio on him eventually that goes over his service, his installation into power, and his rule overall. I'm definitely going to borrow from other posts and threads to piece this together and make it a worthy read--as well as my own head-cannon ideas. Other details I'm definitely considering adding is Ukraine assisting the CP in defeating the Bolsheviks, dealing with further rebellions, settling treaties and diplomacy with Ukraine's neighbors (e.g. territorial claims, ethnic tensions, and concessions), as well as going over the Interwar period, GW2, and the post-war period of his rule. Feel free to send me/suggest to me any workable ideas before posting.
For my first post, it's mentioned--or at least implied--in the books and on this thread that Ukraine is a German-backed kingdom. While there is another post on this from a while back, I don't think Ukraine would be a monarchy ITTL per se, but definitely a Central Powers-backed dictatorship. I'm surprised no one has ever mentioned Pavlo Skoropadskyi on any TL-191 related thread I've seen.
Skoropadskyi was the Hetman of Ukraine briefly in 1918 during the Ukranian War of Independence. He had previously served with the Imperial Russian Army as a Cossack cavalry commander and belonged to a noble family, which included descendance from Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host Ivan Skoropadskyi. In OTL, Skoropadksyi was installed as the Hetman of Ukraine after the CP overthrew the Ukrainian People's Republic in April 1918 with a conservative leaning government in order for the CP to stabilize the country and for the CP to gain their concessions from Ukraine. This period is known as the Ukrainian State, or the Hetmanate. Ukraine stabilized for some time and cooperated with the CP under Skoropadskyi, but his rule was an uneasy one and he wasn't popular among most Ukrainians. After the defeat of the Central Powers in November, the writing was on the wall for him and he resigned the next month and lived the rest of his life in exile in Germany, later dying of wounds sustained in a bombing during WWII. After Skoropadskyi was deposed, the Directorate under Symon Petliura took over and revived the UPR.
With the Central Powers winning ITTL and Ukraine retaining independence, I'm planning on making an in-universe bio on him eventually that goes over his service, his installation into power, and his rule overall. I'm definitely going to borrow from other posts and threads to piece this together and make it a worthy read--as well as my own head-cannon ideas. Other details I'm definitely considering adding is Ukraine assisting the CP in defeating the Bolsheviks, dealing with further rebellions, settling treaties and diplomacy with Ukraine's neighbors (e.g. territorial claims, ethnic tensions, and concessions), as well as going over the Interwar period, GW2, and the post-war period of his rule. Feel free to send me/suggest to me any workable ideas before posting.
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This is a great one. Really gives perspective on his life post-war. If you were to combine this with David's After the End, he's sounds a lot more dedicated for equality and justice, along as a larger than life figure as the head of the Remembrance Center.
A Photo of Cassius Madison, the man who killed Jake Featherston and a lead speaker for the NAAACP, photographed in the 1970's for Life Magazine.
After the end of the War and the hubbub surrounding his shooting of the ex-president of the now-defunct CSA had died down, Cassius Madison took some time to sort out his future. His award of both $100,000 in cash (tax free) and citizenship of the USA ensured, alongside his fame, that he would not be destitute for some time, and the acquaintance of many prominent US politicians such as Flora Blackford and the new President Thomas Dewey would be useful assets in whatever path he chose.
Madison, perhaps out of a sense of optimism, first attempted to track down where his family had ended up after they'd been seized in a Freedom Party round up in Augusta, but once he learned via captured records, courtesy of assistance from retired General Abner Dowling in accessing them, that they had been shipped to Camp Determination, he accepted that his parents and sister were gone, and there really wasn't a point to looking backwards.
So instead, he decided to go forwards. Courtesy of his father, secretly Anne Colleton's former butler and a well-educated man (even by the standards of whites in the south, never mind blacks) Cassius was able to both read and write, and put himself to work getting an education. At the same time, he began reaching out via his connections to Congresswoman Blackford, to find other prominent blacks in the USA as well as gathering the accounts of Population Reduction survivors, ostensibly to help "keep the story straight" as he put it, to ensure Freedomite romanticizers would not be able to downplay or deny what had been done in their name.
More Importantly, to him at least, he also wanted to begin building the kind of organization that would allow Blacks to "Make a bigger stink" about the crimes not just of Featherston and the CSA, but the general anti-black attitudes as a whole, as he was under no illusions that few people in the USA had really cared about the plight of the blacks in the CSA until after they'd seen the photos from the captured Camp Determination and, even now, he knew, most whites in the occupied CSA, if they cared at all, were if anything PROUD of what had been done.
He sought to change that.
"I'm a big name because I killed Jake Featherston. Can't rightly think of no better way to piss on his grave than use that fame to raise black folks up."
-Cassius Madison, 1951 interview on the formation of the NAAACP
Madison's intellect, which he attributed to his late father, allowed him to excel in academic studies, earning him a scholarship to Yale University by 1948. Between his award for Featherston's killing and speaking fees he'd accrued giving speeches across the USA, he had a nice nest egg to sustain himself and more than enough money to pay off his schooling and put his other project to work. He also saw to it that the black Guerillas, such as his leader Gracchus, were able to obtain US citizenship with little to no hassle, several of whom ended up serving as bodyguards for him: more than a few Freedom Party die-hards wanted Cassiuns' head for killing Featherston.
Upon his graduation from his first 4-year education at Yale, Madison announced that, with the support of Government officials such as Flora Blackford and prominent black leaders in the USA, he was forming an organization: the North American Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAAACP. The Goals and Ambitions of this group would be as such: the elimination of racial discrimination in American society, the end of racial segregation in all professional and social fields, the uplifting and provision of education and advancement opportunities for all people of color, ad the insurance that no organization like the Freedom Party ever take root in the United States or her territories. He made clear he wasn't just thinking of Blacks: Native Americans, Latinos and Asians had also gotten a "raw deal" in the USA, and deserved as much of a chance to succeed.
"The founders of this nation said "All Men are Created Equal, and are endowed with inalienable rights." Well, I say it's about time the country started living up to that Promise. Are we gonna see George Washington as the founder of our country and its ideals? or are we gonna see him as just another rich Virginia slave owner?"
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RIP to Chuck Yeager. I'd definitely like to see a post on him, considering the fact he was from West Virginia and spoke with an Appalachian accent. He'd be joining the Army Air Corps right out of high school in 1941.
Union Air Force Test Pilot Charles "Chuck" Yeager standing aside to the Bell X-1 airplane, in which in it he would prove to be the first man in history to break the sound barrier, circa 1947.
Great post, but sorry to burst your bubble, Fairchild can't be a Confederate company ITTL since they originated in New York. I'd definitely like to see what Fairchild would be producing for the Yankees.
A trio of USAF pilots before a captured Fairchild "Alligator," named "Thomas Jefferson" USAF designation C-79, at a forward intelligence airfield, 1943.
The CSA had sold some of its trimotor transport planes abroad between the War years for civilian use, particularly to South American and Asian airlines. One of these, having been purchased by a Chilean airline, was handed over to the USA at the start of the war in exchange for a Douglas DC-2.
Returned to and evaluated by the USA, the plane was pressed into service for counterintelligence operations, flying in CSA markings to drop agents by parachute or supplies to black guerillas.