Tag: african american ancestry

• July 24, 2017

  Day 4: The Equal Justice Institute(Part I)

    Photo taken by the group’s photographer.  Itinerary:  9:00am    Equal Justice Initiative 11:30am  Lowndes County Interpretive Center 12:45pm  Lunch @ Popeyes 1:30pm    Tour w/ Ms. Joanne Bland  3:00pm    National Voting Rights Museum and Institute (Didn’t go) 5:00pm    Edmund Pettus Bridge and Viola Luzzo Memorial  The day began with a rush to…
• March 25, 2015

  The Black Church and the Flowers Family (Part One)

  This three part series will explore the Flowers’ religion and church affiliation beginning with Rachel’s maternal grandfather, Reverend Joseph J. “J.J.” Sawyer of North Carolina. If you are new to my blog, I encourage you to use this family tree as a helpful guide. It is too huge to recreate digitally, but I will try…