‘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
Bordersville Serivce Learning Project
Posted by Liv | Filed under Cemetery
As I walked through one of the buildings on the way back to my office today, I stopped to see the Bordersville Service Learning Project playing on a monitor mounted on the wall in the hallway. Dean Wolfe, Professor of History at Lone Star College-Kingwood, was explaining what the historical cemetery clean-up service project was [...]
Tags: bordersville, cemetery, dean wolfe, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nakrnsm/4591346369/in/photostream/, humble, jim crow, lsc-ki, service project, st. luke
