TWO TIMES AMERICAN, TWO TIMES PROUD™

General Contribution

Cash contributions may be made in any amount using the secure Paypal service:

Please make checks or money orders payable to:   IAANH

           Mail to:   IAANH
                          92 Rice Street
                          Trucksville, PA 18708-1624

            Direct Deposit Contribution:  Fleet Bank (Routing No. 021 200339) (Account No.  4419 003910)
                                                              225 Memorial Highway
                                                              Dallas, PA  18612

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

For A Support Donation of $25 US:

We are offering a souvenir travel-mug imprinted, front and back, with an image of  the African American National Heritage Flag.  It is a $10 value with delivery in the US or Canada.  You will receive one such mug with each support donation of $25 US. 

E-mail:  plus39@eathlink.net

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Mug Order Sheet
(Cut & Paste)

For Christmas, Kwanzaa, and African American History Month
And Personal Gift-giving
A Personal Statement of Pride and Heritage

The Institute for African American National Heritage is proud to offer a souvenir travel mug bearing a two-sided image of the African American National Heritage Flag. The mug is modestly priced at $10 US each, (including shipping and handling). The mug is of quality manufacture, lightweight, spill-resistant, and insulated. The unit is designed for everyday personal use. It is ideally suited for gifts.

When ordering please provide the following:

Name: ______________________________

Shipping Address:____________________________________________

Town, State, and Zip Code _________________________________________________

E-mail address for tracking and notification: _________________________________________

No. of units: ______ Total No. of Units: _________ Amount enclosed _____________

Notification of the order date will be made by e-mail. Delivery is 3 weeks from the order date.

Mail to:

IAANH

92 Rice Street

Trucksville. PA 18708-1624

e-mail: plus39@earthlink.net

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For A Support Donation of $100 US:
 

We are offering an 8-in  x  9.5-in , curved, beveled, leaded-glass, souvenir etched  with ten definers  of African America.  The Memorial Arc is a beautifully crafted piece highly suitable for display on a shelf, or desk, or prominent table.  it is handsome, and eye-catching.  It will generate positive discussion.  The piece is a $40 US value delivered.  
E-mail:  plus39@eathlink.net

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Memorial Arc Order Sheet
(CUT & PASTE)

For Christmas, Kwanzaa, and African American History Month
And Personal Gift-giving
A Personal Statement of Pride and Heritage

The Institute for African American National Heritage is proud to offer a souvenir memorial-arc bearing ten definers of African America. The memorial arc is modestly priced at $50 US each, (including shipping and handling).   One unit is included with each donation of $100.00.  The mug is of quality-manufactured unit that will retain its beauty for a life time.  It is ideally suited for gifts.

When ordering please provide the following:

Name: ______________________________

Shipping Address:____________________________________________

Town, State, and Zip Code _________________________________________________

E-mail address for tracking and notification: _________________________________________

DONATION AMOUNT: _____________

No. of units: ______ Total No. of Units: _________ Amount enclosed _____________

Notification of the order date will be made by e-mail. Delivery is 3 weeks from the order date.

Mail to:

IAANH

92 Rice Street

Trucksville. PA 18708-1624

e-mail: plus39@earthlink.net

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E-mail:  plus39@eathlink.net

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                                                             THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
                                                 NATIONAL HERITAGE FLAG            

For a support donation of $200 US:
 

We are offering 24-in x 36-in African American National Heritage Flag, custom made, and fitted with grommets for pole display.  It is a $75 US value delivered within the US or Canada.  The flag is of a sewn construction with printed stars and letters.  It is highly durable for outside display.  We have been flying our flag 24/7/365 for two years, through hot summers, and hard winters, with only minor wear evident. 

E-mail:  plus39@eathlink.net

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African American National Heritage Flag Order Sheet


For Christmas, Kwanzaa, and African American History Month
And Personal Gift-giving
A Personal Statement of Pride and Heritage

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PATRONAGE INFORMATION

Patronage is needed to sustain the mission of IAANH as stated in the "Document of Creation". A modest staff of thinkers, planners, and program personnel [and appropriate housing] must be developed to facilitate, and otherwise assist a nationwide, community-based observance of African American National Heritage Day. Such an effort adds to the developing establishment of a comprehensive identity for African American-Americans. Ancestry and nationality go hand-in-hand. They are attributes of identity that are typically held one within the other. This has not been true for Americans of unknown African ancestry, African American-Americans, almost four hundred years. The establishment of the Institute for African American National Heritage, and its recognition of African America has corrected this sociological wrong and reestablishes African American Americans a defined people in the world community.

The Institute has several major goals to be achieved in the first years of its existence.  They are:

     I.          Foster the recognition of "African American" as the ancestral nationality of Americans of
                 unknown African ancestry; African American-Americans.

     II.         Develop a nationwide observance of African American National Heritage Day

     III.        Institutionalize ancestral nationality with ancestral heritage and ancestral
                   culture

     V.         Improve the identification, and accuracy of the record of the [local] history of
                  African Americans

     VI.       Establish a Small-Community African American American Legal Defense Fund

A nationwide observance of African American National Heritage Day in African American-American communities is a statement to our children of their singular identity, and the recognition of that identity throughout the land of their birth.  It requires that continuing attention of the parents and elders of  our community to make true continuously.

The celebration of African American National Heritage Day is a recognition, and an institutionalizing, of  cultural ancestry in combination with ancestral nationality.  To be able to achieve the characteristic of commonality, of unity, is the task that has been undertaken by, and is inherent to the purpose of IAANH.  It is clear that the wave of African ancestry and culture that is being embraced by African American-Americans [in the celebration of Kwanzaa] will leave a basic need unfulfilled, that of ancestral nationality. Umoja and Kujichagulia [Unity and Self-determination] are the first and second principles of Kwanzaa.

Current staff and housing of the Institute consists of James Wesley Chester, his wife E. Ann, their children, and the family home at 92 Rice Street, Luzerne County, Trucksville, Pennsylvania.

A major goal of the Institute is to become an effective research facility for activities of, and occurrences within and effecting the African American-Americans in the United States. It will contain a central repository for the local history of African American-Americans throughout the country. The facility will be open to the general public, and self-supporting through nominal fees for on-going and developmental and operating costs. Such a tool will be a useful, and is a needed tool for scholars of the history of the United States, and the history of African America. It will be an equally valuable resource for the general population of Africa America.   Discussions are underway with historians and archivists knowledgeable in current practices and methods in the field.

There are a surprisingly large number of small African American-American populations living in otherwise small communities.  The stories of how they came to be there are widely varied.  These populations are now beginning to grow with commerce and industry moving away from urban areas, and the remote location of facilities by the judicial system for rehabilitation programs.  Most of these people are African American-Americans.  This transplanting of people Legal assistance has always been a particular problem in these remote areas.  It is pointing up the long-time need of these small communities of African American-Americans for a voice in their communities.

A Small-Community Legal Defense Fund for African American-Americans is the third major goal of the Institute to be supported by "Patronage Contributions".  This fund will direct financial support and legal professionals to selected small communities experiencing problems in getting fair representation for their local needs and problems.

In summary, patronage contributions will directed to the administrative, and operational needs of the Institute and a short-list of major goals which are:

1.      Establish the observance of African American National Heritage Day in every African
         American-American community throughout the United States of America.

2.      Created, operate, and maintain a centralized record, and resource of the local history of
         African American-Americans in the counties throughout the fifty [50] states of the United
         States of America.

3.      Establish a Small-Communities African American Legal Defense Fund for helping to assure
         representation for, and fair treatment of, African American-Americans pursuing life, and
         liberty in small communities across the country where their legal needs and rights are typically
         and routinely set aside.

4.      Create and assure a more compete identity for African American-Americans with the
         combining African ancestry [Kwanzaa] with Ancestral Nationality [African America].

The base eligibility criteria for selection of a local organization shall consist of at least the following:

• 501 [c][3] status, or documented primary operation in the African American American community
• simple-majority control of the board of directors by African American Americans,
• simple-majority control of the executive committee by African American Americans, and
• the focus [by written statement and demonstrated practice] on African American-American youth.

IAANH operates as a 501[c][3].

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