Author: Christina
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Research Journal #2: A Conversation w/ Mrs. Elouise Walley
In 1966, Mrs. Elouise Walley began her journey with Friends of Children of Mississippi as a teacher. Little did she know that this journey would span over 30 unforgettable years. Our interview was quite the spectacle.
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research journal, # 1: Mrs. Garlee Johnson
More than ten years ago, I created this digital space to share my research findings which began with Rachel H. Flowers. It shifted to other scholarly projects, including my research on Flowers’ niece, Geraldine L. Wilson, and now the history of Friends of Children of Mississippi, a grassroots antipoverty organization, established in 1966.
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Six years later…
I am officially Dr. Christina & currently completing in post-doc writing world. I’ll be writing some more posts about the dissertation process and completing applications, but for now I am resting and still writing. -Dr. Christina
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Black Girlhood | An Introductory Reading List
“Not enough is known about the experience of black girls in our society.”
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Using StoryMaps to Celebrate A Black Church’s 196th Anniversary
196th anniversary. The pandemic disrupted the church’s original plan to celebrate a year prior. Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the church found a small window to safely gather and honor its nearly two-century history in Baltimore.
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bell hooks
all about love: bell hooks, 1952-2021 “No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”…No woman has ever written enough.” ― bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work There was something about her braids that made me smile. The youthfulness, the ultimate protective style, and the…
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Memories of Childhood and My Father | Geraldine Wilson
Memories of Childhood and My Father Hand-in-hand we walked two-and-a-half childhood steps to one Daddy stride my braids bowed pinafore plaid up curb down curb spring water days were fine fun smoothing diamond edge of his anger mean the wide-brimmed gray Stetson snapped over Black Bottom of his white Post Office pain. Growing up under…
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Chef Vincent A. Flowers & Pinemere Camp
A few weeks ago I received the following comment on Roots of a Hidden Legacy: Not a descendent of the Flowers family, but went to Pinemere camp in Stroudsburg, PA in the 1970’s for 8 years. Vincent Flowers was the head chef at camp, and was the most beloved person at Pinemere. I remember we…
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Protected: Researching & Writing Difficult Family Histories
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The Marriage License of Herbert Wilson and Hilda Flowers
A few weeks ago I came across the marriage license of Geraldine Wilson’s parents, Herbert Wilson and Hilda Flowers. I exhausted the Philadelphia archive, but apparently, I searched the wrong archive. I was in the wrong state. Although the couple held their wedding in Philadelphia and resided there, they crossed state lines for a license.…
Diary of a Historian 