Tag: American history
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Newspapers, Obituaries, and African American Genealogy
By the 20th century, the black press was a cornerstone in the black community giving voice to essentially Black America. It was the “Black Twitter” of the past. In the late 19th and throughout the 20th century, this was the source of black news in America, it was what the black community turned to for…
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Want to Start Researching Your Own Family’s History? Here are Some Tips
A Piece of the Flowers’ Family Tree I get this question a lot, so hopefully I can help someone out. Before I share some tips, let me give you a bit of my genealogical research background. I have my B.A. in history and graduated last May. I have under my belt a semester of graduate…
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The Inevitable: Cemetery Hunting
Now, I am at a standstill in my research. Next year will mark the centennial of Rachel Flowers’ enrollment at Messiah Missionary School and Training Home, known today as Messiah College, my alma mater. If you are new to my blog, welcome! To give you a brief background about Rachel, please read the bio marquee…
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Victims of Hate: Geraldine’s Newspaper Collection During the 1960s
Read Geraldine’s biography here. Image taken from the Geraldine Wilson Papers Collection at the Schomburg Center During her time with Freedom Summer, Geraldine kept record of the events occurring in the South involving missing and murdered blacks and civil rights activists. Most of the newspaper articles within her private archival collection were from The Student Voice,…
Diary of a Historian 