Tag: American history
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Personal Musing: 50 Years Later
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” [Annotated Speech] I stopped my Civil Rights Bus Tour series on Day 5 in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama. So this post jumps to Day 7, our day in Memphis. I only took one picture that day and it was at the National Civil Rights Museum located at the former Lorraine…
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“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…
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#BlkTwitterstorians: Knowledge Drop
Check out my knowledge drop for #Blktwitterstorians. Thanks and happy holidays! Christina
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#BlkGradLife: Lessons from a PhD Student
Graduation Photo by Vika Photography (Charlotte-based photographer) For those who are new to my blog, welcome! I began my PhD journey this past September. These past few months have been long, but full of many lessons. This post is five pieces of advice I learned along the way to assist you in your graduate program…
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We Don’t Want No Problems: Tips for the Archives
Schomburg Center, summer 2017 (I am excited to visit the newly remodeled Schomburg Center next month) For those who are new to my blog, I am working toward my PhD in History with a focus on African American history. The department requires each of us to submit a first year paper, or our “rite of…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Day 3: Albany, GA and Montgomery
It was my goal to blog once a day on the bus tour; however, each day was HEAVY and by the time we made it to our next hotel exhaustion set in. The tour officially ended on June 18th, but I made an effort to journal and keep notes each day. The next series of…
Diary of a Historian 