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A RESEARCH TRIPWALKING IN MY ANCESTORSFOOTPRINTS

JUNE 8-18, 2010DECEMBER 17, 2010

by Yvette Porter MoorePictures by

Vanessa Moore


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THINGS TO DO TO PREPAREFOR YOUR FAMILY HISTORY

RESEARCH TRIPo Research the city & county you are visiting (Local

History)

o Find out where the local Library is located and any

repositories in the area.

o Research people that are well-known that came

from the same town.

o Map out where the county records offices are in the

area

o Look up people, schools, well known businessesthat are related to your research.

o Set up interviews and visits with people you

researched ahead of time

o Be inquisitive at all times

o Take detailed notes and bring a tape recorder &

camera


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LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, NEW

YORKDECEMBER 17, 2010

Found the same quote in NY as previous slide. I

knew the ancestors were with me.


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BETTY MAE PETERSNOV 17, 1926-JAN 5, 2004 My mother was born &

raised in Harlem, NY(Sugarhill)


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Charles Irving Peters Agnes Cully Peters

May 8, 1900- Jan 10, 1965Feb 8, 1897-Dec 1980

My grandparents arrived in Harlem in the 1920s.


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Research done prior

to going to New York.


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HISTORY OF HARLEM&

HARLEM RENAISSANCE


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SUGAR HILL BED &BREAKFAST

This is where we stayed.

My daughter was the photographer

so she was in very little photos.

Thats her walking to ourbrownstone.


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Sugar Hill Looking down over Jackie Robinson Park

My Aunt Hannah in the 1920s on

Edgecombe Avenue. Look at the

fence and bench. I went to the

same area.


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Pictures of Apt Lobby on

Edgecombe Ave.

My grandparentslived in this

Apartment building.


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My mom graduated

from this High School.


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WELL KNOWN PEOPLE THAT WENT TOGEORGE WASHINGTON H.S.

Harry Belafonte

Alan Greenspan

Faith Ringgold

Henry Kissinger


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Visiting the H.S. Under repairs.


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Picture I got from the

school library at

Washington H.S.


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My Mother as

Best Natured


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My mom Betty M. Peters


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515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY

10037-1801

(212) 491-2200

Where I did some

research.


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My grandmother

Agnes withMarian Anderson.

She was her

fashion designer

for twenty years.


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Hotel Theresa


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George, Elevator Operator


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Inside of the Town Hall Auditorium


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MY MOTHERS CHURCH


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St. James Presbyterian Church


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CHRISTINE GILLIARD CULLEY


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CHRISTINE CULLEYS APT SINCE 1930

Found out

she died

7 months

before I

arrived.


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CHRISTINE CULLEYS PAINTINGS- PROFESSOR OF ART @ NYU

FATHER WAS WENDELL PHILLIPS CULLEY-TRUMPETPLAYER W/COUNT BASIE, LIONEL HAMPTON, CAB CALLOWAY, ANDPLAYED ON OVER 200 RECORDINGS.


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Karen Gropper

She was awesome in

telling me more about

my cousin Christine.


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40 ST. NICHOLAS PLACEMS. KATHLEEN WALLACE


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MARION ANDERSON

A Tailor in Harlem and teaches

Sewing


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Visiting the UN in New York.

This was the day I wasgoing to meet one of my

mothers best friends at her

Apt at the United Nations

Plaza (Dolores D. Wharton)


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DRS. CLIFTON AND DOLORES WHARTON


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BETTY MAE PETERS- 6 GRADE


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BETTY MAE PETERS 6 GRADEPUBLIC SCHOOL PS-186

CLASS PICTURE (1938)


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FAITH RINGGOLDS 6TH GRADE GRADUATINGCLASS OF 1942 FROM PS-186


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Michele Wallace,

daughter of Faith

Ringgold speakingwith Ellen Baxter,

Broadway

Housings Founder

and Executive

Director

Photos byStacy Butler


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Michele Wallace, Me & Barbara Wallace

Faith Ringgolds daughters


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Rendering of theSugar Hill

Development

Leveling the playing field for New

Yorks poorest children and families

Was to be amuseum named

after her but

something

happened. Sad but

true.


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Old PS-186

145th Street between

Amsterdam and Broadway


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PS 186


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PUBLIC SCHOOL 186


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PUBLIC SCHOOL 186


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FAITH RINGGOLD


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FAITH RINGGOLD

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FOR THE WOMENS HOUSE

1971


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Faith Ringgold with

her daughtersBarbara and Michele

Wallace.


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Faiths mother


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ZARA FRANCES CULLY BROWN


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ZARA FRANCES CULLY BROWN

My Great Aunt, Moved to Los Angeles and her sister Agnes

and my mother Betty followed.


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To Write a book: The Cully Family: An African

American Legacy. Moving On Up!

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