Those Places Thursday: Pelham, Texas
Posted by Liv | Filed under Those Places Thursday
t’s Thanksgiving Day 2012, as well as, “Those Places Thursday” at geneabloggers.com! This blogging prompt gives me a chance to reminiscence about how and where my ancestors lived and to write about “those places” via stories and/or photos. This past Sunday I came upon this wonderful news story on DallasNews.com about Pelham, Texas, a small Freedman community [...]
Tags: Freedman, freedman community, legacy, Pelham, slavery, South, Those Places Thursday, tx, US history
‘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
