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Day 3: Albany, GA and Montgomery
It was my goal to blog once a day on the bus tour; however, each day was HEAVY and by the time we made it to our next hotel exhaustion set in. The tour officially ended on June 18th, but I made an effort to journal and keep notes each day. The next series of…
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Summer 2017
My summer. In early June, I returned home after finishing up 2 years at a university’s Office of Housing and graduating. In just a week, I took a train from North Carolina to Pennsylvania and began a week and a half Civil Rights Bus Tour (which I blogged briefly about). From there, I took a…
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Day Two: Atlanta
We entered Atlanta and the first thing that popped into my mind was T.I.’s “Bring Em Out”. Our first stop was the King’s Visitor Center and the surrounding memorials and exhibits. This included King’s childhood home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and the reflection pool which is the grave site of both Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…
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Day One of the Civil Rights Bus Tour
June 10, 2017 commenced the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights 16th Annual Tour. That morning our bus departed from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and nearly eight hours entered my home state of North Carolina. Fortunately, I am familiar with the history of this movement, yet despite my familiarity with the civil rights struggle, this…
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#BlackGirlsTravel: A Week in Panama
Taboga Island, Panama I love to travel. If I am not traveling, I am planning my next international adventure. So Panama began with a phone call to my old college roommate, Djola (who I know loves to have fun) and my sister, Faith, who needed a stamp in her passport. I wanted to spend a week…
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Findings in the Archives: Sharing Research Interests with Those You Are Researching
As I slowly, but surely work my way through my findings from a recent archival research trip, I came across the following piece of paper. Photo taken from the Geraldine Wilson Papers located at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture It states the following: Arthur Schomburg Puerto Rican of African Descent Inspired by bad…
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The Woman Who Made It All Possible: Ms. Rebecca Krikorian
My previous post highlighted a new series documenting the lives of the first international students to attend Messiah College and the woman who made it all possible, Miss. Rebecca Krikorian. This is the beginning of her legacy. Photo from the Messiah College Archives: Rebecca Krikorian (sitting) is pictured along with Meshach K. (to her right),…
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My Thoughts on 500 Years of Injustice, A Silent Apology, and A Hollow Worship: Native Americans and African Americans
Mark Charles, speaker, writer, and consultant from Fort Defiance, Arizona, spoke today at my college in our celebration of Native American Heritage Month on 500 Years of Injustice, A Silent Apology, and A Hollow Worship. Can I just say it was one amazing discussion. Charles began with what he called “a tree that fell…
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Because The World Looks Better In Black and White…Estonia and Latvia
This past week, my study abroad group travelled to Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia. We left last Thursday night at 10:30 pm and of course I got on the bus extra early to get my own seat because we were not going to arrive until 8 am. For most of the trip I read The…
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Meshach Paul Krikorian
Was writing about the importance of Rachel Flowers and her accomplishments to Messiah College’s community when I stumbled upon the biography of Meshach Paul Krikorian. Now, I have seen this biography many times and actually began to do some further research on Meshach, but was consumed with the Flowers project and never completed it. Out of…
Diary of a Historian 