Dr. Antoinette Harrell shares her genealogy research and humanitarian work in Mississippi. She embarked on a humanitarian missions as a result of her genealogy research.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Travels to Zama, Mississippi
The Cotton Exchange Museum in Memphis, Tennessee
The Cotton Fields in the Mississippi Delta
Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Clarksdale, Mississippi Library Peonage Research
Dr. Antoinette Harrell Researching in Clarkdale, Mississippi
Family Lived on Ballground Plantation for 5 Generations
Researching in Attala County, Mississippi
Ballground Plantation in Redwood, Mississippi
Researching My Harrell Ancestors in Amite County, Mississippi
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Liberty, Mississippi Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell |
Friday, April 9, 2021
Hemora Plantation in Pike County, Mississippi
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Hemora Plantation Notes Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell |
Hemora Plantation is located in Holmesville in Pike County, Mississippi. Holmesville is an Unincorporated community in Pike County. This note was located inside the book entitled, " Source Material for Mississippi History, Pike County, Vol, 57, Part 2. The note is giving directions to the location of the plantation. 5 miles South of East from Summitt, 3 miles from McComb.
Pike County Marriage Records Separated Up Until 1976
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Marriage Records Books in Pike County, Mississippi Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell |
I went to Pike County, Mississippi was still separated by race up until 1976. I was just as shocked as those of you who are reading this blog post. Long after the Civil Rights movement marriage records in Pike County, Mississippi were still being separated.
Indian Arrowheads Collection at the McComb, Mississippi Library
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Display of Indian Arrowheads Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell |
I visited the library in Magnolia, Mississippi the first thing that caught my eye was the display of Indian Arrowheads. Some of them were found in the yards of the local people. It appeared that some where purchased from others states according to the tags.
Emancipation Day
Emancipation Day
A celebration characteristic among the Negroes is that of the "eight of May." No Negro can be found anywhere in the white quarters available for any kind of work on that day, the day of all days, to them. May 8 is Emancipation Day," a for picnics and any wild forms of amusement they may see fit to indulge in. No one works, no one cares; from the white-haired mammy, bedecked in red bandanna and fresh white starched apron, to the most pig-tailed bare-foot pickaninny, with the remains of a fried chicken leg in one hand and a stick of peppermint in the other. In the afternoon they have ball games and the Negroes congregate from many towns.
Bibliography:
Source Material for Mississippi History, Pike County, Vol, 57, Part 2
McComb, Mississippi Genealogy Department
Mississippi Department of Archives, 1902-1907
WPA Project
Negro Baptizing in the Tangipahoa River
Bibliography:
Mississippi Department of Archives 1902-1907. WPA
Source Material for Mississippi History Pike County, Vol. 57, Part 2
Thomas Holden, Sr.
Thomas Holden, Sr. Photo Courtesy of Ancestry/Donavin Cole Original submitted by Irishmocha67 Thomas was born in 1828 in Amite County, Missi...
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Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr. Community Book Center of New Orleans, LA, owner Vera Warren-Williams organized a drive to collect clothe...
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Interview with Donald Jeffery on Ballground Plantatiion Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr. For five generations, Donald Jeffery and his fa...
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Ephraim Europe Bates was born in 1834 in Amite County, Mississippi. He died in 1910 in Amite County, Mississippi. The school for African Ame...