Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Aline Turner Was A Pioneering Woman of Ponchatoula, Louisiana

›
Aline Turner Johnson Photo Credit: Lillian Bates S everal weeks back, I met a woman named Lillian Bates through one of my social media...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Tulsa Race Riot Survivor Dr. Oliva Hooker Died at 103

›
Living Legacy Award Recipients Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr. D r. Olivia J. Hooker, a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and fi...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Josephine Woolridge Edward of Montpelier, Louisiana

›
Josephine Woolridge Edward 1896-1974 O n October 29, 1974, Sister Josephine Woolridge Edward departed his life at 9:35 p.m., at the hom...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Barnard and Jane Family Williams History of Ponchatoula, Louisiana

›
Barnard and Jane Williams Family History Ponchatoula, La: Courtesy Photo Courtesy: Lillian Bates J ane Williams was born in Ponchat...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Images of America " African Americans in Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes

›
Please mark your calendar to join Dr. Antoinette Harrell the author of Images of America "African Americans in Tangipahoa and St. He...
Friday, August 10, 2018

The First Black-Owned Vocational Training School in the Country Will be Auctioned Off on August 29th

›
http://www.blacknews.com/news/first-black-owned-vocational-training-school-in-the-country-auctioned/#.W21wTC2ZM6h
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Name Clarification for Temple Cemetery in Amite, Louisiana

›
Temple Cemetery Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell A couple of years ago, Edwin Temple and I discussed the name of a cemetery in Amite,...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

O.W. Dillon School to Be Placed on the the National Register of Historic Places

›
 Delegation Visited  O.W. Dillon School Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell T his past week a delegation organized by Dieone ...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Images of Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes, Louisiana: Part of the Images of America Series

›
F or the past seven months, I have been traveling throughout Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes, Louisiana collecting photographs of Africa...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Who Remember Perry's Drive Inn in Butler Town in Amite, LA?

›
Perry Drive Inn Photo Courtesy: Antoinette Harrell B ack in the late 60s my mother would stop at Perry's Drive-in and bring home s...

Early Photograph of Amite No 1 Church of God in Christ

›
Amite No. I Church of God in Christ Photo Courtesy:  Rev. Raymond Foster, Sr.  O ver the past couple of months, I've set in the h...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Documenting the History of a Civil Rights Icon Mrs. Vernia McCoy

›
Antoinette Harrell interviewing Mrs. Vernia McCoy I spent an hour sitting and talking with Mrs. Vernia, a citizen of Tangipahoa Pari...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

A History Road Trip with Family

›
Bernard mailing his African Ancestry DNA in Virginia W hen my youngest son Bernard was a child, we visited many, archives, libraries, ...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Ethel Williams Temple

›
Ethel Williams Temple 1919-1958 E thel was born to Jim and Emma Vining Williams in 1919 in St, Helena Parish, Louisiana. Ethel died i...

Because Every Picture Tell A Story

›
Ruth Landrew Jackson A couple of days ago cousin Oliver Jackson, Jr., called me and asked me to contact cousin Ruth to get pictures o...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Gray's Quarter Neighborhood Reunion

›
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Family Members Shared Their Photographs and Oral History

›
Jo-Ann Lewis Frazier J o-Ann Lewis Frazier is the oldest grandchild of my maternal grandparents Jasper and Josephine Richardson Harre...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Who Are These Beautiful People in the Photographs

›
Unknown Courtesy of Monteral Harrell M y maternal first cousin Monteral Harrell and I was looking through the photograph collection ...

The Alexander Harrell Branches Linked Through A Photograph

›
Jo'elle and Baylee W e've all heard the someone say, " a picture is worth a thousand words" at one time or another....