Author: Christina

• January 29, 2013

  For Evers: Myrlie Evers-WIlliams

  I was in the grocery store, ear phones in my head jamming to Stevie Wonder. Old school I know. I was anxious to get out of the store, same story too many stares and I rush to the shortest line fumbling to grab a bag. Here, in Lithuania, you grab a plastic bag before check…
• January 21, 2013

  For Evers: Part I

    Today I did a little over an hour of research on the Evers family. I have about three pages of notes, made two family trees for the blogs, and started to read The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches by his wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams,…
• January 19, 2013

  New Project

  Finish my first week of classes here in Lithuania. They are not hard, well actually it was only the first week which is the easiest week, but from the looks of it I am hoping for an academically good semester. I am still trying to create an independent study to make my senior year a…
• January 13, 2013

  The Journey Begins: Lithuania Part I

  Labas, It has not even been a week yet since I left the States and I am now at my new “home” for 4 months in Klaipeda, Lithuania after spending a few days in Vilnius. It is a beautiful, calm, and peaceful country. It is also surprisingly extremely inexpensive as well (100 litas= 38 USD).…
• December 28, 2012

  New Year, New Findings

  Happy New Year In five days I leave for Lithuania to study abroad for a semester. I still need to shop, pack, and figure out some passport and insurance stuff. Other then that I am ready to go and experience something different. With this break from school I have been catching up with the Voice…
• December 19, 2012

  Census Documents and Google Maps

  Current pictures of addresses found in census documents and new articles. On census documents street names are typically on the side, once, where the census person first started. Because of this, you will have to go back to previous census documents in order to retrieve a street address. Sadly for this set in the 1910s…
• December 15, 2012

  Rachel Flowers(s)

  All of my finals are finished and I am now headed home with my friend Shung Li who is spending Christmas with my family. My family is  a bit crazy and I haven’t seen them in a year besides my one sister for Thanksgiving, it will be interesting for both me and Shung Li. I…
• December 8, 2012

  Hilda Flowers: Mississippi Civil Right and Grassroots movements

  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) focused on getting students involved in nonviolent civil rights and grassroots organizing. SNCC members assisted black voters in the rural South and help formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The SNCC members of Philadelphia faced daily harassment from local authorities who responded to white fears of black militancy and…
• November 15, 2012

  library Research Grant

  Today I just found out I won a research grant given out by my school’s library! This grant allows you to do research at other libraries or archives. I am going to use this grant to travel down to the Mississippi State Archives in Jackson. I was made aware by another blogger that Hilda Flowers’,…
• November 7, 2012

  Update on research

  Never imagined that my research would result in this, but I realized no researcher does. Classes have just started, yet this semester is almost done. The reason behind my absent, actual I been just reading other people’s blogs. This semester was my first semester as a history major after biology, sociology and anthropology, and politics…my…