Vicky Foster
This is the story of my husband, Silas Foster. He wants to learn more of his family. His family has been scattered and he is desperately trying to put all ...
Robert Terry
What follows is a summery of the work I'm engaged in which I'm soliciting your opinion on, thanks in advance. The Foreword of Claude F. Oubre’s book Forty Acres and A ...
D Shearon
As a white military child I saw "colored only" restrooms and fountains in city parks in Cincinnati. After marrying a Russian with a 154 IQ, a paradigm shift took place ...
Kathleen O'Connor Wang
When I was a freshman in college I took speech as an elective and found Sojourner Truth's speech,"Ain't I a woman?" I chose this for my speech. It was such ...
Cedric Bell
Hello Mr. Gates and thank you for giving me a chance to share my family story. Since I was a child my Grandfather (Johnny Bell) would tell me stories about his ...
Kathy White Smith
I remember being in elementary school in about the fourth grade. It was my own curiosity that got the best of me. I was wondering why they didn't have books ...
Dr. Ira Davis
As a thirty-eight year old man, I can recall first learning about the accomplishments and struggles of African-Americans in a major way when I was assigned to do a Black ...
Sabrina Graham
As a child, living on the east side of Buffalo, NY, with a single mother, I was distinctly aware of my circumstance and journey in life. My mother was my ...
Jacquelyn Stephens-Ramsey
I grew up in Sacramento and remember reading in the 4th grade in my history book one portion of a sentence which read, "...and negroes picked cotton." I was furious ...
Solomon Titus Taylor
My name is Solomon, and I am a child of the Titus family of Sumter, SC. I have found and been in contact with family that has been separated since ...
GLORIA BROWN
I am the current day, NAACP President of Madera County, CA 93637, and my Mother's Family Ancestry is in the State of Mississippi, in Lawrence County. My Mother was born in ...
Christine Castro
Dr. Gates- I am the eldest of the fourth generation of immigrant great grandparents. Raised in a Latino household, my Puerto Rican father and African American mother were raised in ...
Randi McCray
I learned about history from my older brother. He was in college while I was young. As he gained increased knowledge and understanding in our culture, he was very intentionally ...
Mark Givens
I, Mark A. Givens, was aware of my African heritage and all thing relative to being an African- American in the south from my parents (Paul and Carrie Givens Sr.). ...
James Daniels
I am a 69 year old Black Man, whose first encounter with racism occurred when I was 3 or 4 years old. My parents (God Bless Them) took me to ...
