Black History Month
Ben Birkshire
First black man to settle in Macon County
- First Black Residents Came to Decatur February 1853
- About Town (Jun 24, 1943)
- Ben Started Black History Here (Feb 20, 1977)
- Ex-Slave was County's First Black (Feb 8, 1994)
- First African-Americans Came to City in February 1853 (Feb 11, 1999)
- Pages from Decatur's Past Revealed in "The Colored People" (Feb 27, 2010)