Tag: student research
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From the Schomburg: Geraldine Wilson’s Resume
Undated photo, Geraldine Wilson Papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture I concluded my summer travels…YAY! Panama was beautiful (will post later about that), gentrified Harlem treated me well, and Pennsylvania was full of reunions and research. I am still processing my research notes from the Schomburg. This time I carefully searched and read through her…
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Victims of Hate, Part II
Image Source Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, July 1964 People commit crimes like this because they are ignorant. They need to be educated. Georgia Penn, wife of Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn In the summer of 1964, Lt. Col. John D Howard, Major Charles E. Brown, and Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn travelled from Washington, D.C. to Fort…
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The Woman Who Made It All Possible: Ms. Rebecca Krikorian
My previous post highlighted a new series documenting the lives of the first international students to attend Messiah College and the woman who made it all possible, Miss. Rebecca Krikorian. This is the beginning of her legacy. Photo from the Messiah College Archives: Rebecca Krikorian (sitting) is pictured along with Meshach K. (to her right),…
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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: 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.…
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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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Senior Honors Thesis Proposal
This is what I really been working on the past few weeks. The deadline for the proposal is April 1st and I wanted it in ahead of time to be reviewed by my professors. I had to make a ton of changes which did not bother me because I wanted it as perfect as possible.…
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Census Documents and Google Maps
Current pictures of addresses found in census documents and new articles. On census documents street names are typically on the side, once, where the census person first started. Because of this, you will have to go back to previous census documents in order to retrieve a street address. Sadly for this set in the 1910s…
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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…
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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’,…
Diary of a Historian 