Military Monday: Maybe a Forgotten War, but not a Forgotten Military Life
Posted by Liv | Filed under Military Monday, Surname, Taylor
eterans Day 2011 is this Friday (Nov. 11) and there will be celebrations and parades going on across this country to honor our veterans for their service, commitment, and ultimate sacrifice to this country! My father, John Taylor, was drafted at age 18 to serve in the U. S. Eighth Army’s 169 2nd Engineer Battalion [...]
Tags: African-Americans, ancestor, Battalion Motor Pool, Engineer Battalion, family photo, Japan, John Taylor, Korean War, Masiwa, Motor Sergeant, segregated military, US Army
‘The Help’ and Me
Posted by Liv | Filed under Genealogy Radio, TV & Video, Taylor
Whether you believe the block-buster film, ‘The Help‘ is a “timeless and universal story about the ability to create change with a whisper (the movie’s tagline),” or it’s Hollywood’s “sanitized” version of what Jim Crow living and work relations were really like for many African Americans in the South prior to the Civil Rights Movement, one [...]
Tags: 1960's, African-American, black maids, days' work, jim crow, Kathryn Stockett, South, United State
Wordless Wednesday: Best of Friends
Posted by Liv | Filed under Chapple, Smith, Surname, Wordless Wednesdays
Tags: Estella Chapple, Estella Smith, family photo, grandmother, houston, texas, vintage photo
