"Empress" of Moorish Washitaw Nation Dies

[Unidyne]

http://springtimeofnations.blogspot.com ... es-in.html

Verdiacee Hampton-Goston, aka Verdiacee Washington-Turner Goston El-Bey, Empress of the Official Empire Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah, died on April 26th in her home in California.

He's something I didn't know about her. She actually served a term as Mayor of Richwood, LA in the 1970's.

http://www.knoe.com/story/25397593/form ... mayor-dies

[Jeffrey]

Mandatory reading:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/i ... u?page=0,0
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/i ... u?page=0,0

But the town’s younger generation soon grew skeptical, particularly after she got herself appointed as Richwood’s first mayor in 1975 and then battled to keep the post even after she lost the 1976 election to a man improbably named Governor Richardson.

In 1979, Mayor Richardson decided to run for reelection. In an interview, he said that Goston asked to meet him one night -- but that he declined after his wife advised against it, worried because of Goston’s well-known anger at losing the 1976 contest.

Some time later, on the night of May 11, 1979, 10 bullets were fired into Richardson’s home. His wife was hit in the chin and required 160 stitches. The shooting was never solved, although Richardson says that he always felt it was related to the political confrontation between him and Goston. When the future empress won by a handful of votes, Richardson says he decided that he would not ask for a recount.