In 1918 and 1919 thirty-seven young women, friends and neighbors of my grandmother Fannie Mae Turner were members and guests of the Edelweiss Club in Montgomery, Alabama. These are snapshots from their lives, place and times. Click on any image to enlarge! I did not realize that the Freedmen’s Bureau founded many schools. In this … Continue reading S- SWAYNE SCHOOL
I published part I of Amanda Cleag’s Deposition during 2019 at this link – Amanda Cleage. While going through blog posts I never published, I found this one and decided to publish it today. Part II of Amanda Cleag’s Deposition Question: What persons or person are in or about Athens, Tenn. now who knew you … Continue reading “Had the soldier been married before his marriage to you?”
A Video Case Study By Paul Lee, DirectorBest Efforts, Inc. Twelve years ago, I wrote the following essay on how most of the Western broadcast news media consciously, willfully and, in my view, maliciously used selective editing to make the brilliant, exceptionally sincere African American freedom fighter Malcolm X look like a monster, as he … Continue reading How the ‘White’ News Media Distorted Malcolm X and His Message
The 1930 Census Dated April 2, 1930 In 1930 the Cleage family lived on the Old West Side in Detroit, Michigan. In this neighborhood everybody was identified as Neg(ro) in the 1930 Census. “The trickle of Black people living outside of Black Bottom would grow exponentially in the decade following the Sweet trials. By the … Continue reading The Cleages in the 1930s
Recently while looking through my tree for the Jackson Family of Autauga County, Alabama, which I have long suspected of being the slave holders for my maternal grandfather Mershell Graham’s family, I found the will and estate file for Crawford Motley Jackson who died in 1860. In the file I found my grandfather’s mother Mary … Continue reading Appraisement of the Negroes Belonging to the Estate of C. M. Jackson
Abraham Cleage/Abram Cleag – I have so much new information, waiting to be written up. Charles A. Cleage – I have his pension file and that of his widow, waiting to be written up. George Cleage George Cleage There were two, I have not written up this one yet. Philip Cleage He died of smallpox, but his … Continue reading The United States Colored Troops Statue, Washington DC
Finding my 2X great grandmother’s name – Clara (Hoskins) Green on Thomas Ray Allen’s death certificate made me realize that he was my great uncle. I had seen her name on my great grandmother Anna’s death certificate and on the family tree that my grandmother Pearl wrote out for me, but I had never heard … Continue reading Clara Hoskins Green – Thomas’ Mother
This is an introduction to Thomas Ray Allen. The other posts during the A to Z Challenge will expand on details mentioned here. Thomas Ray Allen was born into slavery about 1845 on Foster Ray’s plantation in Lebanon, Marion County Kentucky. Thomas’ mother, Clara was sixteen years old. His father’s name was Louis Allen. Two … Continue reading Thomas Ray Allen 1847 – 1907
For this year’s April A-Z Challenge I am blogging everyday using items taken from the letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother from 1907 to 1912, starting with “A” and moving right through the alphabet to “Z” during April. My grandmother, Pearl Doris Reed, was born in Lebanon, Kentucky in 1886. She was the … Continue reading P is for Pearl
For this year’s April A-Z Challenge I am blogging everyday using items taken from the letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother from 1907 to 1912, starting with “A” and moving right through the alphabet to “Z” during April. Address: Miss Pearl Reed, 2730 Kenwood Ave, City 3/30/’09 In my judgement, the weather today … Continue reading K is for Kenwood Ave.