Walking and Connecting in Selma, Alabama
I used to walk around the park everyday, listening to GirlTREK’s Black History Bootcamp podcast. Out of of my mouth, I said I was going to work with them one
Vera Mae Green: A Black Woman, Black Belt, Quaker, and Anthropologist
That whole Bohemian style—Vera Mae Green was already on it. It’s trendy now, but some folks are naturally drawn to “eclectic” patterns and colors. Fabrics that make us feel free.
Vera Mae Green got me going to a Quaker meeting and changing my wardrobe
That whole Bohemian style that’s really popular these days–Vera Mae Green was already on it. Although it’s trendy now, some folks are just naturally drawn to eclectic patterns and colors.
Sol C. Johnson
Better known as Sol C. Johnson, he was born four years after slavery ended on November 29, 1869. He moved to Savannah from South Carolina as a child. As a
Virginia Jackson Khia
Virginia Jackson was born on June 3, 1911 to two powerful civil rights leaders: Keiffer Albert Jackson (originally from Mississippi) and Dr. Lillian Carroll Jackson (from Baltimore). Her mother was
Mother Mathilda Beasley
Mathilda Taylor was born enslaved in New Orleans in 1834 and moved to Savannah as a free woman in the 1850s. In addition to making 💵 as a seamstress and
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley was born on a South Carolina plantation owned by a prominent politician. A Gullah man. He escaped to Boston and became one of America’s first black lawyers.
Madam Birdie Freeman
In the early 1900s, well off black women in Savannah sometimes called themselves madames. Beauticians included. Madame Freeman was one of em. She was born Bridie Andres in Hampton, SC
Alice Woodby-McKane
Happy birthday, Alice Woodby. She was born on February 12, 1865 in Pennsylvania, the same year the Confederates lost the Civil War and slavery ended legally. In 1892, she earned
Cornelius Mckane
Cornelius McKane was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, on February 2, 1862. That’s in South America and is now called Guyana. He’s the great-grandson of King Mannah Funacai of Liberia,