Tag: african american history

• March 1, 2018

  Geraldine Wilson’s Commencement Speech at Tougaloo College, 1975 [Part I]

  First and foremost, thank you for the 20,000 views on the blog! It may be a small milestone, but still a milestone. I will post an update about graduate life.   My favorite photo of Geraldine. Her head is wrapped and the photo showed her in action [probably in the midst of giving a WORD…
• February 7, 2018

  “Susan and Gordy Adopt a Baby!”: Geraldine Wilson and The Children’s Television Workshop

  Over winter break, I spent time with my one year old nephew. We spent most of our morning eating cereal, dancing, and watching my childhood favorite show–Sesame Street. We bonded over our love of Elmer and Big Bird and wept over the absence of Ernie and Bert. A few weeks later, I traveled to New…
• January 24, 2018

  “Greenview Dwelling”: Finding the Flowers Family’s Home

  In the early twentieth-century, Rachel Flowers was a Black socialite in the Harrisburg and Philadelphia region. Her parties attracted members of the Black middle class and due to her educational activism, also educators from New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and even Bermuda. When her events were hosted in Harrisburg, news articles referred to her country…
• December 20, 2017

  #BlkTwitterstorians: Knowledge Drop

  Check out my knowledge drop for #Blktwitterstorians.  Thanks and happy holidays! Christina
• November 10, 2017

  “Our Children Are Our Children”: The Poetry of Geraldine Wilson

  Geraldine Wilson, date unknown. Research Paper Title: “What Shall We Teach Our Children Who Are Black?: Geraldine Wilson, Freedom Schools, and Project Head Start in Mississippi, 1964-1968 or “Our Children Are Our Children”: Geraldine Wilson, Freedom Schools, and Early Black Childhood Education in Mississippi, 1964-1968 Although my paper explores the educational activism of Wilson through Freedom…
• August 31, 2017

  Day 5: Birmingham (PART III)

  Just FYI I took this trip back in June. So these posts are simply reflections.  Carolyn McKinstry, one of the survivors from the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (1963), signing her book While the World Watched After spending the morning in Montgomery, our group traveled to Birmingham for the afternoon. We had the liberty of exploring…
• August 25, 2017

  Day #5: Montgomery (Part II)

      Before I jump into this blog, I want to share a quick story about Phyllis Brown, a woman I met on the course of this trip. Her older sister, Minnijean Brown, was among the nine who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. P. Brown joined us for two days on the…
• August 11, 2017

  Day 5: Montgomery (Part I)

  Another heavy day. At the Rosa Parks Memorial Museum, Montgomery  Day Five | First Stop- Southern Poverty Law Center  (SPLC) It is strange to call the center’s museum beautiful because of the pain that lies within history. However, the SPLC, aesthetically,  is a beautiful museum. On the walls were the names and stories of civil rights martyrs.…
• July 28, 2017

  Day 4 (Cont): Selma and Montgomery, Alabama

  Our tour group with civil rights activist  Joanne Bland  Following our visit to the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), we continued day four with a visit to the Lowndes County Interpretive Center. This center is a smaller museum, yet again tells the powerful history of local people in Lowndes County, which sits between Selma and Montgomery,…
• 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…