The branches stretching through Patricia Moncure Thomas’ family tree are peopled with blacks and whites, slave owners and likely slaves, founding fathers and an...
Read moreRelatives of OKC resident documented in Depression-era slave narrative share more family history
What’s it like to be raised by an ex-slave? Ask Frank Luster. The Oklahoma City resident was born 89 years ago as the grandson of emancipated slave Bert Luster. After...
Read morePreserving black history, with Smithsonian help
Like so many black Americans before him, Marvin Greer figured slavery and migration had hopelessly scattered the heirlooms of his family’s past. Now he’s...
Read moreKansas State Archives Exoduster Reconnection IV Conference
Votaw Colony Museum, Inc. announces Reconnection IV Conference which highlights the history and heritage of African American settlements in Kansas. This years event...
Read more70% African, 30% European: Who am I now?
I have spent a lot of time over the past few days ruminating on racial identity. My thoughts were sparked by a confluence of events: Last week, PBS aired the final...
Read moreGift preserves rare history
Frank W. Davis Sr. was an ordinary man. He ran a business, raised a family and was dedicated to his church and his Masonic lodge, said his granddaughter, Josie Davis...
Read moreAn Ancestry of African-Native Americans
Angela Walton-Raji has been researching African-Native American genealogy for nearly 20 years and is the author of the book Black Indian Genealogy Research...
Read morePardons pushed for Kentuckians convicted of helping slaves escape
The Rev. Calvin Fairbank spent 17 years in a Kentucky prison — suffering beatings and brutal labor — for committing the felony of helping slaves escape to freedom...
Read moreFreedom papers reveal Berks’ past
Sixty years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, John Teysher of Oley Township felt the spirit of independence and freed two slaves...
Read moreNational Archives Hosts 6th Genealogy Fair, April 14-15, 2010
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being issued by the National Archives: Free two-day genealogy fair to focus on “The World...
Read moreCarnival of African-American Genealogy
On March 19th Restore My Name – Slave Records and Genealogy Research, will kick-off the first of an ongoing series of African-American themed carnivals, intended to...
Read moreIconic stories of slavery and the South leave out many black family histories
One day late in the summer of 1956, when I was an undergraduate, I walked a few blocks to my grandmother’s house and sat my father’s mother down at her...
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