Thursday, February 23, 2017

Antoinette Harrell Collection at the Center For Southeast Louisiana Studies

›
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Nurturing Our Roots" Teach the Kids About Inheritance!"

›
Monday, February 13, 2017

Black Farmers and Their Land

›
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Nurturing Our Roots & Extending New Branches

›

Nurturing Our Roots Genealogy Workshop

›
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Mob Law in Tangipahoa

›
Last Tuesday morning, John Johnson the negro boy who so unmercifully slaughtered the Cotton family at Tickfaw, Louisiana, and brought u...

Black Field Laborer Near Amite City

›
Black field laborer near Amite City, ca . 1900. Cotton production remain central in the regional economy in the late nineteenth century. T...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Amite High School 1970 Delores Harrell Washington

›
Delores Harrell Washington was a graduate of the 1970 class of Amite High School in Amite, Louisiana. She is the youngest child born to J...

Amite High School Class of 1970

›
Sitting: Left to Right- Rudy Boyd, Mary Mabry, Cheryl Williams, Diane Belvins, Jo Ann Williams, Searlette Brayeil, Connie Brooks, Standin...

Celebration of Life for Ella Victoria Fortenberry of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

›
Ella Victoria Morris was born the youngest of three siblings to Annie Mae Pope-Morris and Rafort Morris on October 6, 1923 in Columbia, Mis...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Mt. Cannan Missionary Baptist Church Deacon Board

›
Deacon Board of Mt. Cannan Missionary Baptist church. If anyone can name all the men in the pictures please do so. Third man for the ...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

My Son Isn't For Sale

›
James Morris Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a beautiful woman named Lorena Morris at the home of her friend Ruby Dunn Gilmore. ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

What Are You Doing to Preserve Your Family Papers and Photographs?

›
Antoinette Harrell preserving original papers. Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr. A ny person who has experienced a natural disaster o...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Free Bob's Great Granddaughter Cora Bell Cryer-Evans

›
Cora Bell Cryer-Evans Cora Bell Cyer-Evans was born in Fluker, Louisiana July 29, 1920. She is the youngest daughter of Nancy and Josep...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Mt. Canaan Elementary School Was the First School for African American Students in Arcola, Louisiana

›
Robert"Free Bob" Vernon donated the land for the first school for African American children in Arcola, Louisiana.,  The school ...

Singer Topsy Chapman of Kentwood, Louisiana

›
Topsy Chapman T opsy grew up not far from New Orleans in Kentwood. She was surrounded by music, her parents believed in the cultural of...

Chapman Brothers Gospel Singers of Kentwood, Louisiana

›
The Chapman Brother Photo Courtesy of Lemmie Chapman III This article is a reprint and was brought by Lucille Watson of Kentwood, Loui...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

The Vernon Family Reunion "The Legacy Will Never End"

›
 Photo Credit: Jo'elle Lacoste The Vernon family held their 2016 family reunion in Tangipahoa Parish this past weekend. This year...
Friday, August 5, 2016

She Remembered Like It Was Yesterday

›
Several weeks ago genealogist and television talk show Antoinette Harrell met with  Mrs. Brumfield was a graduate of O.W. Dillon High Sc...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

She Was One of Twenty Three Children

›
Ms. Maxine Knighten I saw this petite and certainly neat lady several places in the community. She has strongly resembled by maternal ...