Sunday, February 26, 2023

Black Homesteaders of the South with Bernice Bennett

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Friday, February 24, 2023

Honoring the Legacy of African American History Keeper

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Black History Month has been very busy this year for  me.  When  black history can be taught 365 days a year, the stress of speaking engagem...

Whose shoulders do you stand on?

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Dr. Valarie Richardson and Earl S. Richardson     We have all heard people say that we stand on strong shoulders. On whose shoulders do you ...

Buried between two cotton fields on Locust Ridge Plantation

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Dr. Antoinette Harrell Photo Credit:  Annie Harnet t Annie Harnett and I was  introduced several years ago by a mutual friend, Steve  Godfre...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Genealogy with Antoinette & Karran

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Hurricane Ida damage headstones and vaults at Rocky Hill Cemetery

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Damaged Vault Rocky Hill Cemetery Photo Credit:  Dr. Antoinette Harrell In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, I visited Rocky Hill Cemetery. Th...

Hammond Magnet School focus on local history for Black History Month

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Hammond Magnet School Photo Credit: Mr. Kip Andrews Dr. Antoinette Harrell was invited to speak at Hammond Magnet High School in Hammond, Lo...

St. Helena Parish Clerk on a mission to preserve local records and creating online access

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Mildred Cyprian St. Helena Parish Clerk Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell   I have conducted genealogy research for the past 30+ years at...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Ephraim Bates Succession and Probates 1829, St. Helena Parish Files B-1

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Dr. Antoinette Harrell Conducting Genealogy Research  St. Helen Parish Clerk's Office March. 23, 1829- Inventory: a tract of which decd ...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Civil Rights Leaders Climon Ricard Sr, of St. Helena, Louisiana

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Climon Ricard Military Draft Cart Ancestry Climon Ricard, Sr.  was born on July 30, 1915 to George Samuel Ricard and Susan Ricard. He died o...

Livingston Parish Civil Rights Leader Lester Youngblood

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Lester Youngblood Courtesy of  Bernice Alexander Bennett Funeral Program Photo I'm familiar with the name Youngblood since author and ge...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Campbell's African American Funeral Home was established in 1940 in Hammond, LA

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Samuel Levy Campbell Military Draft Card Courtesy of Ancestry Kathe Hambrick, founder and director of the River Road African American Museum...

Citizens Voters League Members in Tangipahoa, Livingston, and St. Helena Parishes 1955

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Photo Courtesy Library of Congress BE IT KNOWN, That on the this 3rd day of September, 1955, before me, Leonard E. Yokum, a duly commissione...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Henry Wheat of Amite, Louisiana

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Henry Wheat Photo Courtesy of  Gordon Richardson Deliverance C.O.G.I. C He was born in Tangipahoa Parish, in 1919 to Saul and Corrine Harris...

Major Coleman of St. Helena, Louisiana

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Major Coleman Photo Courtesy of Gordon Richardson Deliverance C.O.G.I.C Major Coleman was born  in 1893 in Chipola, St.Helena, Louisiana to ...

Josephine Baker Coleman

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Josephine Baker Coleman Photo Courtesy of  Gordon Richardson Temple Deliverance  C.O.G.I. C.  She was born in 1911 and died on May 11, 1952 ...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Rev. Vernia Garrett McCoy Obituary 1938-2022

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Rev. Vernia Garrett McCoy ws born in Franklinton, La., to Isaac James Garrett, Sr. and Vander Anthony Garrett. She was batptized at Winans U...

Researching their grandparents records at the Tangipahoa Parish Clerk's Office

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Conducting genealogy research Tangipahoa Parish Clerk's Office Did you ever wonder where to begin researching your family history? Dr. V...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

There was a landfill in Butler Town

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Josefine Linnea Jonsson/Wikimedia I remember my mother visiting friends and family in Butler Town an African American settlement within the ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The beautiful Grace Lee Belvins Walker

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Grace L. Belvins Walker Her kindness and pride make her a very special person. She was a former teacher in the Tangipahoa Parish  School Sys...