Lincolnville is the only South Carolina town founded by freed slaves and free blacks that still exists, as well as the only one named after Abraham Lincoln, the...
Read moreHistoric cemetery restored, dedicated
For years, the final resting place of two freed slaves and their descendants lay forgotten, covered by leaves and brush off of Old Mill Road in Ridgeway. After the...
Read moreBefore Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before...
Read moreGates keeps going back to roots
On the heels of a successful PBS series documenting the ancestry of 19 African-Americans, Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates has published a book...
Read moreCase Study: Two Negro Boys Named Elijah and Frank: The Search for My Slave Roots
Initially my motives were less than noble—I wanted money for school. Because my family’s oral history claimed that we descended from Cherokee Indians, I thought that...
Read moreAfriquest, the Free Online Database for African And African American Genealogy, to Launch February 28, 2009
February 26 — After a successful beta period, Afriquest (www.afriquest.com), the free online database for records of African and African American genealogy and...
Read moreWhite senator discovers family’s African-American roots
It’s often said that a real Southerner can “claim kin” with anyone. Tony Rand realized the same could be true for him. Rand, whose family can trace...
Read moreSouth Carolina African American Historical Records to be Published Online
Lowcountry Africana, and The South Carolina Department of Archives and History today announced plans to digitize and publish freely online more than 25,000 historic...
Read moreLiving a white lie
Three years before MCPS officially opened its doors to integration, Jim Queen was a student with a mixed heritage – part white, part black, part Native American...
Read moreFormer Lithonia mayor traces ancestry to Sierra Leone
After a decade of drawing on faded death and marriage certificates and old census and slave records, Marcia Glenn Hunter traced her ancestors back to Samuel Wood, a...
Read moreBefore Tuskegee, There was Bullard
He’s probably the most famous African-American combat pilot that you’ve never heard of. His name was Eugene Bullard, and he didn’t fly in Vietnam or...
Read moreVery Rare Slave Quilt Still Survives In Bristol
Slave-made and used quilts are very rare, but there is one here in Bristol. It was made by slave women on the Stoney Point plantation in what is now part of Bristol...
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