Talk:Barney Ford

=[slur] hill?=

Is it necessary to include the actual slur used in the name of the hill renamed to Barney Ford Hill? Snorepion (talk) 01:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Absolutely not. It's been removed.–CaroleHenson (talk) 09:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

No Lye
I removed this from the article:

Ford is featured in Bayer Mack's 2019 documentary, No Lye: An American Beauty Story, that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry.

I can only find this one source that mentions that Barney Ford was featured in this documentary. I am guessing this is a notability issue (about this documentary) since there are not more sources.

I'd appreciate input, though. Perhaps I am missing something.–CaroleHenson (talk) 09:06, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Underground Railway conductor?
I do not see assertion in the History Colorado source, nor in the NRHP nomination document for the Barney L. Ford Building, nor yet in any other source (though I might just not have gotten to it), that Barney Ford was a conductor on the Underground Railway. That is asserted in the lede of the article (where inline references are usually not needed because the lede is a summary of the rest of the article), but there is no claim to that effect elsewhere in the article. So there's no indication which source(s) might possibly support that. It is stated in the History Colorado source that he travelled the Underground Railway in his own escape from slavery, but that is different. And somewhere (not sure where now) I think a source states he supported the Underground Railway while in Chicago. Maybe he did "conduct" there, but I currently don't see that explicitly stated in a source. If it is in fact sourced, that needs to be added to the body of this article. Carole Henson, can you possibly pls. comment? I hope no one minds that I put a citation needed tag in the article, about this. --Doncram (talk) 08:30, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Specifically, the article currently includes assertion "He operated a station in Chicago in the 1850s, with the ultimate destination of Canada where former slaves would live free", with inline citation to this History Colorado source, which does not support that assertion. The source does state "Ford worked as a barber and actively supported the Chicago abolitionist and Underground Railroad efforts" but that could just mean he donated money towards the UGRR, say. Perhaps/probably another source is more specific? --Doncram (talk) 08:33, 29 May 2021 (UTC)