Tag: roots

• April 5, 2013

  Before Rosa Parks: Irene Amos Morgan Ancestry Part I

  Source Note: I hate referring to people, especially those that I do not know, by their first name. Someone pointed out that I do this in my blog. I realized I do this, it is not an accident. When writing about a family’s history it becomes confusing referring to everyone as Mr. Amos and Mrs.…
• March 31, 2013

  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…