Author: Christina
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Personal Musing: 50 Years Later
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” [Annotated Speech] I stopped my Civil Rights Bus Tour series on Day 5 in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama. So this post jumps to Day 7, our day in Memphis. I only took one picture that day and it was at the National Civil Rights Museum located at the former Lorraine…
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Geraldine Wilson’s Commencement Speech at Tougaloo College, 1975 [Part I]
First and foremost, thank you for the 20,000 views on the blog! It may be a small milestone, but still a milestone. I will post an update about graduate life. My favorite photo of Geraldine. Her head is wrapped and the photo showed her in action [probably in the midst of giving a WORD…
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“Susan and Gordy Adopt a Baby!”: Geraldine Wilson and The Children’s Television Workshop
Over winter break, I spent time with my one year old nephew. We spent most of our morning eating cereal, dancing, and watching my childhood favorite show–Sesame Street. We bonded over our love of Elmer and Big Bird and wept over the absence of Ernie and Bert. A few weeks later, I traveled to New…
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“Greenview Dwelling”: Finding the Flowers Family’s Home
In the early twentieth-century, Rachel Flowers was a Black socialite in the Harrisburg and Philadelphia region. Her parties attracted members of the Black middle class and due to her educational activism, also educators from New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and even Bermuda. When her events were hosted in Harrisburg, news articles referred to her country…
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#BlkTwitterstorians: Knowledge Drop
Check out my knowledge drop for #Blktwitterstorians. Thanks and happy holidays! Christina
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I Got Ya!: Last Minute Grad School Application Tips
Last December, I remember scrambling around to read those final books class, write those last papers, work those last few weeks, and finish those last minute applications to doctorate programs. You are in that place of trying to finish one dream while working to start another and it is stressful. This is a late post,…
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Geraldine Wilson and the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
Chaplain of Tougaloo College, Reverend Edwin King, wrote on May 29, 1964, “The ‘long hot summer’ is about to begin.” That following summer, nearly one thousand volunteers, traveled to Mississippi to work with the local Black community and civil rights activists. The goals of Freedom Summer involved registering Black Mississippian voters and to enroll Black children…
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#BlkGradLife: Lessons from a PhD Student
Graduation Photo by Vika Photography (Charlotte-based photographer) For those who are new to my blog, welcome! I began my PhD journey this past September. These past few months have been long, but full of many lessons. This post is five pieces of advice I learned along the way to assist you in your graduate program…
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We Don’t Want No Problems: Tips for the Archives
Schomburg Center, summer 2017 (I am excited to visit the newly remodeled Schomburg Center next month) For those who are new to my blog, I am working toward my PhD in History with a focus on African American history. The department requires each of us to submit a first year paper, or our “rite of…
Diary of a Historian 