{"id":83053,"date":"2025-02-12T01:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/february-5-2025-inspiring-sports-stories-chubbtown\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T01:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T01:32:57","slug":"february-5-2025-inspiring-sports-stories-chubbtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=83053","title":{"rendered":"February 5, 2025: Inspiring Sports Stories: Chubbtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-2073234013595885981\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>[For this<br \/>\nyear\u2019s Super Bowl series, I wanted to highlight inspiring American sports stories<br \/>\nand figures, past and present. Leading up to a special pre-Valentine\u2019s tribute<br \/>\nto my two favorite American athletes!]<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">On two contrasting<br \/>\nand equally important ways to contextualize an inspiring family story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">I don\u2019t<br \/>\nimagine I have to convince readers of this blog that sports are more than just a<br \/>\ndistraction or entertainment, that they connect to all the layers of our<br \/>\nsociety and community and history. One of the most striking instances of such<br \/>\nconnections for me is the fact that I first learned about the unique and<br \/>\namazing American community of <a href=\"https:\/\/theatlantavoice.com\/chubbtown-an-american-family-story-in-georgia\/\">Chubbtown,<br \/>\nGeorgia<\/a>, through a pregame story on the running back Nick Chubb, then playing<br \/>\nas a stand-out at the University of Georgia. Chubb has since moved into the<br \/>\nNFL, as has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2022\/11\/12\/georgias-historic-chubbtown-named-bradley-and-nick-chubbs-ancestors\/8247472001\/\">his<br \/>\nrelative<\/a>, the equally talented defensive lineman Bradley Chubb. Both Nick<br \/>\nand Bradley are related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ncfpc.net\/2015\/10\/28\/the-chubbs-of-chubbtown\/\">historic Chubb<br \/>\nfamily<\/a>, one of the oldest-recorded multi-generational African American<br \/>\nfamilies in our history (with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunburypress.com\/collections\/reference\/products\/clemmie-whatley-the-chubb303-317-488-manual?variant=32912443244637\">records<br \/>\ndating back<\/a> to the pre-Revolutionary days) and the founders of Chubbtown, a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umnews.org\/en\/news\/little-church-looms-large-in-black-history\">community<br \/>\nof free Black folks<\/a> established in the mountains of Northwest Georgia in<br \/>\n1864, during the depths of the Civil War (and as an escape from that conflict).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Chubbtown<br \/>\nis far from the only community founded by African Americans during and<br \/>\nimmediately after the Civil War, as anyone who has read Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s <i>Their<br \/>\nEyes Were Watching God<\/i> (1937) knows; Hurston <a href=\"https:\/\/mass.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/aml15.ela.lit.setting\/setting-eatonville-florida\/\">sets<br \/>\nmuch of her novel<\/a> in such a community, one based closely on her own<br \/>\ninfluential childhood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitflorida.com\/travel-ideas\/articles\/arts-history-zora-neale-hurston-eatonville\/\">experiences<br \/>\nin Eatonville<\/a>, the first incorporated all-Black city in America. And<br \/>\nremembering such communities overall allows us\u2014or perhaps forces us is the better<br \/>\nphrase\u2014to engage with the 1923 <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.eji.org\/racial-injustice\/jan\/05\">Rosewood massacre<\/a>,<br \/>\nwhen another all-Black community in Florida was largely destroyed by white<br \/>\nsupremacist domestic terrorists. The late <a href=\"https:\/\/thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com\/2019\/04\/30\/john-singleton-rosewood\/\">John<br \/>\nSingleton\u2019s 1997 film<\/a> portrays both that community and that massacre with<br \/>\nnuance and power, and I would say we can\u2019t commemorate the Chubbs and Chubbtown<br \/>\nwithout a complementary examination of that story and these frustratingly<br \/>\nfrequent and foundational American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2020\/10\/considering-history-voter-suppression-and-racial-terrorism-the-twin-pillars-of-white-supremacy\/\">histories<br \/>\nof racial terrorism<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">At the<br \/>\nsame time, we talked a great deal throughout my 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century African<br \/>\nAmerican Literature course this past Fall semester about not allowing such<br \/>\nhistories to dominate our collective memories of the truly multilayered and<br \/>\noften profoundly inspiring stories of Black history. This year marks the 250<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\nanniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hrcga.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/HRCGA-Chubb-Chapel.pdf\">first<br \/>\nrecorded stories of the Chubb family<\/a>, making their saga a particularly striking<br \/>\nand symbolic such inspiring story in early 2025 (and one that can, for example,<br \/>\ncomplement, challenge, and transcend collective memories focused only on the<br \/>\n250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of white-centered stories and figures from the<br \/>\nAmerican Revolution). That story extends far beyond Chubbtown, but it became deeply<br \/>\ninterconnected with this community, one that produced two iconic 21<sup>st<\/sup><br \/>\ncentury athletes who can, like so much of the best of sports in our histories,<br \/>\noffer a window into better remembering every layer of that setting and story. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Next<br \/>\ninspiring story tomorrow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Ben<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">PS. What<br \/>\ndo you think? Inspiring sports stories or figures you\u2019d highlight?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[For this year\u2019s Super Bowl series, I wanted to highlight inspiring American sports stories and figures, past and present. Leading up to a special pre-Valentine\u2019s tribute to my two favorite American athletes!] On two contrasting and equally important ways to contextualize an inspiring family story. I don\u2019t imagine I have to convince readers of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[41327,3843,16337,329,4717],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-83053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","tag-chubbtown","tag-february","tag-inspiring","tag-sports","tag-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>February 5, 2025: Inspiring Sports Stories: Chubbtown - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=83053\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"February 5, 2025: Inspiring Sports Stories: Chubbtown - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[For this year\u2019s Super Bowl series, I wanted to highlight inspiring American sports stories and figures, past and present. 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