Tag: african american history
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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…
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Chef Vincent A. Flowers & Pinemere Camp
A few weeks ago I received the following comment on Roots of a Hidden Legacy: Not a descendent of the Flowers family, but went to Pinemere camp in Stroudsburg, PA in the 1970’s for 8 years. Vincent Flowers was the head chef at camp, and was the most beloved person at Pinemere. I remember we…
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To My Nana, The First Archivist I Knew
For Frances Louise McLean Graham (October 12, 1946 – December 13, 2019) “My first introduction to this field began not in the classroom but in my Nana’s kitchen cutting collards and seasoning catfish. She carried lessons of Black history through food, gossip (her form of historical fact), and stories of her upbringing in rural North…
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#SayHerName: A Digital Memorial
Originally posted on Electric Marronage. Over my desk hangs an image of Korryn Gaines, a 23 year old Black woman, mother, daughter, and sister, shot and killed by Baltimore County Police in 2016. On Juneteenth at the Say Her Name: March for Black Women and Femme Survivors, organized by Baltimore activists Amorous Ebony and Brittany…
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1922: Chicken and Waffle Dinner
Under the “Personal and Social News Items” section in the Harrisburg Telegraph August 11, 1922 Miss Rachel Flowers Hostess at Summer Home Miss Rachel H. Flowers, of Brandtsville, entertained at a chicken and waffle dinner at her country home. The guest included: Mrs. Lucie Arrington, Mrs. Smith, Miss. Rebecca Scott, Miss Gladyce Flowers, Mrs. Hilda Flowers…
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Toni Cade Bambara x Geraldine Wilson, A Friendship
LA TIMES (Dec 15. 1995) Toni Cade Bambara, 56, a novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter and filmmaker, died of cancer Dec. 9. Ms. Bambara, a native of New York, lived in Germantown, Pa. In this undated photo, a photographer captured Geraldine Wilson (seated-left), Toni Cade Bambara (seated-center), Ruby Dee (seated-right), and others at a writer’s workshop in…
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Reading Images in the Archives
Rachel Flowers, Messiah College Archives This was the first image I encountered of Rachel Flowers a decade ago (a WHOLE DECADE AGO). It was my first semester of college and I saw the above image in the college’s library. Messiah College recently celebrated its centennial anniversary and posters honoring the institution’s multicultural century hung across campus.…
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City People: Black Baltimore in the Photographs of John Clark Mayden
Read the gallery guide here. This past spring, I began my curatorial fellowship work with Sheridan Library. The library recently acquired about 100 prints from local street photographer, John Clark Mayden, which they sought to display in both an exhibit and book, Baltimore Lives: The Portraits of John Clark Mayden. Before I curated a small exhibit…
Diary of a Historian 