Tag: Black History

• February 14, 2013

  For Evers: Family Matters

          Well, we are finally starting the ancestry of Medgar’s Evers. Check out previous posts on his wife’s, Myrlie Evers-Williams, ancestry.  This post will cover only the 1930 Census and 1940 Census. Other post will cover the 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 Census along with military records and individual biographies on…
• February 8, 2013

  For Evers: Actually You Can Go Further

  Last post, I made the decision to move on to Medgar Evers’ ancestry and close the chapter on his wife’s. Well, I decided to dig a bit more before I completely close that chapter and it was worth it.   Whereas there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a…
• February 6, 2013

  For Evers: You Can Only Go So Far

  Family history research begins in modern times and works backwards, generation by generation. Discoveries for all American families, regardless of ethnicity, are made through census records, military papers, vital records (births, marriages, and deaths), and other documents created over a lifetime. African American family research, however, can pose unique challenges as you follow your family…
• February 1, 2013

  For Evers Part II: For Whom I am Named

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2013 as National African American History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the…
• January 29, 2013

  For Evers: Myrlie Evers-WIlliams

  I was in the grocery store, ear phones in my head jamming to Stevie Wonder. Old school I know. I was anxious to get out of the store, same story too many stares and I rush to the shortest line fumbling to grab a bag. Here, in Lithuania, you grab a plastic bag before check…
• January 21, 2013

  For Evers: Part I

    Today I did a little over an hour of research on the Evers family. I have about three pages of notes, made two family trees for the blogs, and started to read The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches by his wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams,…
• January 19, 2013

  New Project

  Finish my first week of classes here in Lithuania. They are not hard, well actually it was only the first week which is the easiest week, but from the looks of it I am hoping for an academically good semester. I am still trying to create an independent study to make my senior year a…
• December 28, 2012

  New Year, New Findings

  Happy New Year In five days I leave for Lithuania to study abroad for a semester. I still need to shop, pack, and figure out some passport and insurance stuff. Other then that I am ready to go and experience something different. With this break from school I have been catching up with the Voice…
• December 8, 2012

  Hilda Flowers: Mississippi Civil Right and Grassroots movements

  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) focused on getting students involved in nonviolent civil rights and grassroots organizing. SNCC members assisted black voters in the rural South and help formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The SNCC members of Philadelphia faced daily harassment from local authorities who responded to white fears of black militancy and…
• November 15, 2012

  library Research Grant

  Today I just found out I won a research grant given out by my school’s library! This grant allows you to do research at other libraries or archives. I am going to use this grant to travel down to the Mississippi State Archives in Jackson. I was made aware by another blogger that Hilda Flowers’,…