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
Do you remember where you were on April 4, 1968 at 6:01 pm?
Posted by Liv | Filed under Genea Musings
n Thursday April 4, 1968 at 6:01 pm, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down while standing on the balcony outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Do you remember Where you were (and what you were doing) on the evening of April 4, 1968? I was 8 years [...]
Tags: 1968, civil rights movement, January 15, Lorraine Motel, Martin Luther King, Memphis, MLK Day, sanitation workers, TN, US history, Walter Cronkite
