Tag: Black Ancestry
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The Memories of Those You Are Remembering
Yesterday, I finally received my photocopies from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture located in Harlem, New York. I took off of work for the remainder of the day and started my research back up. It is a beautiful thing when a researcher is reunited with her researcher. I had no idea where to…
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They Will Be Remembered
I am not an historian. When I went to the deep South for the first time in 1963…I received my first bibliography on the black experience in this country. It came not from a university professor, but from a black SNCC worker. I have made the personal discovery of the history of my people…
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Great Expectations
We hold these truths that we all have expectations for ourselves and others. I see this as one of the hardest aspects of genealogy (or doing a family’s history). The more I uncover about the Flowers family the more expectations I hold for each individual. When I first “met” Rachel Flowers, I thought she was…
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Geraldine Louise Wilson
Geraldine Louise Wilson was born on December 28, 1931 to Herbert and Hilda Wilson. She was the couple’s first child. The only census with information regarding Hilda is the 1940 Census. The above picture was taken from Temple University’s yearbook from 1955. She lived on 1345 North Alden Street at the time majoring in Elementary…
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Did Google Just Become My Best Friend?: “Re-Introducing” Geraldine Louise Flowers
I have just return from spending three days with my head in boxes of information from the home and office of Hilda Flowers Wilson and her daughter Geraldine Wilson. It almost became emotional for me to hold notes written by Hilda, but I held it all together. I was not about to cry or…
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Before Rosa Parks: The Ancestry Of Irene Morgan Part IV
Well one week and a day and I will be home. Finals are coming up and I have been studying, catching up on The Voice, filling out internship applications, and doing some family research. Sometimes I wish I was Henry Louis Gates Jr. or at least worked with his team of researchers. I am still…
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Before Rosa Parks: The Ancestry Of Irene Morgan Part III
I apologize for the inactivity. Last week, I had two huge papers due for my Intercultural Communication and International Relations class. I know I did well on the first paper, but the second one was a bit tougher, however, I do not expect a grade lower than a B, well at least I hope not.…
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Before Rosa Parks: The Ancestry of Irene Amos Morgan Part II
Source The picture above shows Irene Amos Morgan Kirkaldy receiving the Presidential Citizens Award from President Bill Clinton for her actions in 1944. Found a full description of the event that led to Morgan v. Virginia in the book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault. Page 14: The…
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Before Rosa Parks: The Ancestry of Irene Amos Morgan Kirkaldy (1917-2007)
Source She [didn’t] see herself as a hero. She saw something that had to be done, and she rushed in, like all heroes.” Irene’s daughter, Brenda Bacquie Eleven years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Irene Morgan refused to give up her seat on bus on…
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For Evers: I Will Leave You With This For Now
No post for the next week or so, I am off to Russia in a few hours. We will be touring Moscow and St. Petersburg. A little nervous, beyond scared, but I had to realize the reality of the country and educate myself before I go, which turned out not the best thing to do.…
Diary of a Historian 