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Reintroducing the Flowers Family
If you are new to this blog, you might be wondering, Who are the Flowers?. Since 2012, I have been conducting research on this family’s history beginning with Rachel Helen Flowers, the first African American student to attend my alma mater. Uncovering her biography led to an even greater story of her family’s vast and…
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The Journey in Uncovering Harry Flowers’ Early Life: The Llambias
When I enlisted and before that I lived here in St. Augustine. I was born and brought up here…I was a slave and belonged to Llambias There were four brothers and they all lived together and we all lived right in the yard with them and I did not belong to any particular one. They…
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October: Homecoming, Conferences, and Papers
As October draws to an end, I made a promise to myself that my last blog post would not be from September and I will remain true to this promise. October has been a month full of blessings. So here is a post about my latest adventures. Homecoming No one expected me back for Homecoming. I jokingly told…
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Well Well Well
In the midst of finalizing housing for graduation school, (sending in payments next week!), and doing research, my laptop broke. It has been an on and off relationship with my computer, literally sometimes it would turn on and sometimes it would turn off. Luckily, it was not the hard drive and I was able to…
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Where Have I Been?
Senior year has been busy. I had my multiple leadership roles, 15 credits of class, and my honors thesis. It has been a stressful, yet wonderful year that is finally wrapping up. I I just submitted in Roots of a Hidden Legacy: The Story of the Flowers Family to my research adviser. And I am also…
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Senior Year: The Final Chapter
It has arrived. Less than 99 days until I graduate and I am ready, to some degree. I am ready to graduate and to not be overly busy with classes, leadership, mentoring, etc. I am tired. I was hoping for an easy, by easy I mean not as stressful, final semester, but at the end of…
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Time For Something New
Was not planning on the For Evers series to be stretched this long. I was hoping I would trace his family as far back as I could, but it was much challenging then I thought. It is quite impossible with missing and limited records. I am quite disappointed, but I did all I could do,…
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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…
Diary of a Historian 