Tag: african american history
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Natchez, MS Project | Report by Annie Pearl Avery
Civil Rights Project | Oral History of Annie Pearl Avery I met Ms. Annie Pearl Avery last summer in an unusual, hilarious way. Mrs. Brenda Travis and I traveled together from Jackson to Indianola for the 60th commemoration of Freedom Summer. While there, Ms. Avery called sharing that she was lost. She traveled from Alabama…
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FIS Library | David Llorens, Freedom Summer Volunteer
My research focuses on the Black volunteers who came to Mississippi that long, hot summer of 1964. With my work at the FIS Library, I began processing some of the volunteer applications.
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FIS Library Box 2, Folder ‘Bob Moses’
Two years ago, I met civil rights veteran Jan Hillegas. Since 1965, Hillegas has preserved the history of the Mississippi Movement through the Freedom Information Service (FIS) Library. The FIS Library’s first holdings included materials she rescued from the COFO statewide headquarters in Jackson when the organization dissolved that year.
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“The Forgotten One”: Wayne Yancey
We are the survivors of Mississippi but I knew one who did not come back Not one of the murdered the three young men, two Jewish and one Black but the fourth who died that summer of 1964 in a car accident that may or may not have been an accident He is the forgotten…
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A Year Later: Post-Ph.D. Adventures
I opened this neglected blog space at least once a month. Drafts filled my computer, and I made a mental note every week to update it. I debated archiving this site, yet as I researched and wrote, I wanted to return to this digital space, which began as my digital research notebook. It was a…
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Research Journal #2: A Conversation w/ Mrs. Elouise Walley
In 1966, Mrs. Elouise Walley began her journey with Friends of Children of Mississippi as a teacher. Little did she know that this journey would span over 30 unforgettable years. Our interview was quite the spectacle.
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research journal, # 1: Mrs. Garlee Johnson
More than ten years ago, I created this digital space to share my research findings which began with Rachel H. Flowers. It shifted to other scholarly projects, including my research on Flowers’ niece, Geraldine L. Wilson, and now the history of Friends of Children of Mississippi, a grassroots antipoverty organization, established in 1966.
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Black Girlhood | An Introductory Reading List
“Not enough is known about the experience of black girls in our society.”
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Using StoryMaps to Celebrate A Black Church’s 196th Anniversary
196th anniversary. The pandemic disrupted the church’s original plan to celebrate a year prior. Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the church found a small window to safely gather and honor its nearly two-century history in Baltimore.
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Memories of Childhood and My Father | Geraldine Wilson
Memories of Childhood and My Father Hand-in-hand we walked two-and-a-half childhood steps to one Daddy stride my braids bowed pinafore plaid up curb down curb spring water days were fine fun smoothing diamond edge of his anger mean the wide-brimmed gray Stetson snapped over Black Bottom of his white Post Office pain. Growing up under…
Diary of a Historian 