Tag: history
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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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And The Research Begins
I have just arrived in Jackson, Mississippi after spending a week in New Orleans. I love New Orleans, but it was too much. The city that is and also knowing the situation the city is in concerning poverty, education, etc is heart-breaking. Plus, I am far from a big city girl, I like the…
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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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Russia Through A Photographer’s Eyes
Been back from Russia for about a week now, maybe two weeks. I needed some time to catch up on schoolwork. I do not know how to describe the trip. I guess it was an interesting experience. I can say that I spent my spring break in Russia, which is pretty cool. I wonder do…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rachel Flowers(s)
All of my finals are finished and I am now headed home with my friend Shung Li who is spending Christmas with my family. My family is a bit crazy and I haven’t seen them in a year besides my one sister for Thanksgiving, it will be interesting for both me and Shung Li. I…
Diary of a Historian 