Sharon Leslie Morgan moved to Noxubee County, Mississippi to research her ancestors’ history. Morgan’s great-great-grandmother, Betty Warfe Gavin, was enslaved there, and gave birth to 17 children. The father of all of them was Robert Louis Gavin, a white man…
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Healing Historic Harms Through Research — Sharon Leslie Morgan
Tagged with: African Americans, Ancestors, Enslaved People, family history, linked descendants, North America, Our Black Ancestry, rape, Sharon Morgan, Slaveholders, Slavery
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
Rewriting History
Betty Kilby was nine years old when the Supreme Court handed down the Brown versus Board of Education decision that declared segregation in schools illegal in 1954. Four years later, her father and the NAACP filed suit against the school…
