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Category: Ephemera/Paper/Documents

Authenticating a Black ancestor’s history by joining the DAR

Posted in African American women, Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, slavery, and Women

An African American baker named Cyrus Bustill baked bread for George Washington’s troops during the Revolutionary War. That’s what the documents showed, but family historian Joyce Mosley wanted more verification. So she decided to join…

Cutouts of baseball fans carry on tradition of ‘dummy boards’

Posted in Antiques, collectibles, Culture, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and history

Have you ever heard of “silent companions?” I hadn’t heard of them until my friend Rebecca mentioned them in light of the move by the Philadelphia Phillies and other baseball teams to fill their stands…

Like the movement, John Lewis was beaten, bloodied but unbowed

Posted in Black history, civil rights movement, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and history

You cannot understand the greatness of John Lewis unless you know the struggles that he and other civil rights activists endured during the 1960s. He was in his 20s when he bravely marched and protested…

George Floyd’s death links to a murderous past of lynchings

Posted in Black history, Death, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and history

I bought the newspaper at auction two years ago, but I just couldn’t bring myself to write about its contents. The stories on the front page were too horrific, too graphic, too painful. Every headline…