African American Research at the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
Posted by Liv | Filed under Libraries, Resources
It’s Black History Month 2012 and one place you will certainly find me is at the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research to learn more about the groundbreaking African American Heritage database they have devoted to African American family history research . . . woo-hoo! To learn more about this event and another program of [...]
Tags: African-American, African-American Heritage, Black History Month, Clayton Library, database, family history, genealogical research, genealogy, houston, library, texas
‘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
