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Trumix.com listings available of Under The Tree Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Episode 28: Delores Hines Williams, Anne Arundel County, MD Interview with Mrs. Dolores Hines Williams, originally of Pumphrey, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Her interview covers: ArabbersEarly 20th Century life in Anne Arundel County, Maryland Life with her grandfather, Charles Hines (see below)St. John United Methodist Church, formerly Holly Run Methodist Church. The church began in 1852. This church served and continues to serve the Hines family. Dolores Williams' family goes back to before 1796 on her Hines line in the st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 27: 2006 Year in Review Episode 27 reviews the mistakes from 2006 and uplifts the goals for 2007. In addition, the new genealogy news segment is introduced.Show Notes from News Jamestown, VA 400th Anniversary: http://www.americas400thanniversary.com Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Conference, October 2007, Boston, MA (Hope to see you there!!) National Genealogical Society Conference & Family History Fair, Richmond, VA, May 16-19, 2007: http://www.eshow2000.com/ngs/2007/ 16th Annual Fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 26: Dr. Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland Interview with Dr. Bettye Gardner of Coppin State University, an HBCU. Dr. Gardner is a professor of African-American and U.S. History at Coppin and a member of Association for the Study of African American Life and History.Much thanks to Ursula V. Battle, Director of the Office of University Relations at Coppin State for facilitating this interview.Show Notes:History of Coppin StateThe merging of Coppin State and Morgan StateLife in Vicksburg, MSDr. Gardner descended from a free AA (one of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 25: Dr. Bertha Miller, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina Interview with Dr. Bertha Miller, Professor of History at Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Photo c/o Fayetteville State University.  Key Points: The history of Fayetteville State University Dr. Miller's role at FSU The void in recorded histories of HBCUs The need for HBCUs to continue - filling in the void where public schools fail The need for more AA teachers in public schools Why Dr. Miller chose to teach at an HBCU  Notes about D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 24: Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Texas The HBCU Huston-Tillotson University of Austin, TX is featured in this podcast. Dr. Janice Sumler-Edmond and her class History 383 examine the key themes, personalities, events and ideologies of the AA experience from the Reconstruction Era to the present. In this podcast, Dr. Sumler-Edmond, her students (see below) and I cover the history of the 131-year-old institution followed by a review of the following speeches by Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream, Address at March on Washington ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 23: Interview with Mr. State Alexander, Executive Vice President of Livingstone College Interview with Mr. State Alexander, Executive Vice President of Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina. Points covered: The History of Livingstone College, an HBCUConnection with the AME Church1st Annual Livingstone Celebrity Faith-Based Scholarship Golf Tournament. Friday, October 27, 2006. Hosted by Actor Clifton Davis. Photo c/o Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 22: Interview at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum Under the Tree is on site at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. Interviewees: Portia James, Senior Curator and HistorianThe Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation, 1619-1930. Smithsonian Inst Pr. Jan 1989.The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology. Anacostia Museum and Center For African American History and Culture, Eleanor Holmes Norton (Foreword by). Wiley (January 5, 2005). Marcia Baird-Burris, Public Affairs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 21: Dr. Tommy L. Bogger, Director of Archives, Norfolk State University Interview with Dr. Tommy L. Bogger, Director of Archives at the HBCU of Norfolk State University. Points covered: History of Norfolk State UniversityAfrican-American History in Norfolk, VARevolutionary WarNorfolk, VA & Liberia, AfricaUnderground RailroadChanges in approach to African-American HistoryDr. Bogger's researchAfrican Art Gallery at Norfolk Books: Readings in Black & white : lower Tidewater Virginia / by Tommy Bogger ... [et al.] ; edited by Jane H. Kobelski. Port ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 20: Doris Ligon, Founder of the African Art Museum, Columbia, Maryland (Part 2) Part 2 of the interview with Mrs. Doris Ligon, Founder of the African Art Museum in Columbia, MD. This museum features art from a variety of tribes. In adddition, it's housed in a house that is on a former plantation called Oakland. This episode covers: Masks worn by African women and their role in African societyFundraising effortsThe Door of No Return Young People www.africanartmuseum.org Photo c/o the Rhys Carpenter Library for Art, Archaelogy and Cities at Bryn Mawr College ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 19 of Under the Tree: Interview with Doris Ligon, Founder of the African Art Museum, Columbia, Maryland (Part 1) Interview with Doris Ligon, Founder of the African Art Museum in Columbia, MD. This museum features art from a variety of tribes. In adddition, it's housed in a house that is on a former plantation called Oakland. NOTE: The Oakland plantation will be a feature of a future show highlighting plantation life and other African-American related genealogical/historical information in Howard County, Maryland African Art on the Internet The Red List of African Art Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 18 of Under the Tree: Interview with Chancellor Lawrence A. Davis, Jr., University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff In the continuation of the HBCU series, this is an interview with Dr. Lawrence A. Davis, Jr., Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a 130+ year old university. He is the son of the former Chancellor and President of UAPB, Lawrence A. Davis, Sr., who served from 1943 to 1973. Photo: The occasion is a President's Ball at Arkansas AM&N College, and then-student (now University Chancellor) Lawrence A. Davis, Jr., beams as William Randall presents a student gift to longtime ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 17 of Under the Tree: Michelle Coxen, Southern Univ at Shreveport In addition to the State to State series, I am starting a new series entitled HBCU's: Then and Now.The first college on our list is Southern University at Shreveport, which has been in existence since 1964. The interviewee is Michelle Coxen, Coordinator of Media & Public Relations at Southern University. Much thanks goes to Ms. Peggy Snow, the administrative secretary for the Institutional Advancement arm of SUSLA, who facilitated this interview.Points covered:Act 42, May 11, 1964, Lous ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 16 of Under the Tree: Interview with the Wilson Brothers & Rev. George Simpson of Queen Esther AME, Ivytown, MD Interview with the Wilson Brothers & Rev. George Simpson of Queen Esther AME of Ivytown, MD in Talbot County, MD. Talbot County is the birthplace of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey better known as Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895). He is the son of Harriet Bailey, a slave. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 15 of Under the Tree: Interview with Vince Leggett, Founder & President of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation Episode 15 of Under the Tree: Interview with Vince Leggett, Founder & President of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation. Books: Blacks of the Chesapeake : an integral part of maritime history / by Vincent O. Leggett; photography by Marion E. Warren; illustrations by Alan B. Chesley. Imprint [Annapolis, MD : The Leggett Group, c1997].Blacks of the Chesapeake through Ebony Eyes, c1999. Image c/o the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 15 of Under the Tree: Interview with Vince Leggett, Founder & President of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation Episode 15 of Under the Tree: Interview with Vince Leggett, Founder & President of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation. Books: Blacks of the Chesapeake : an integral part of maritime history / by Vincent O. Leggett; photography by Marion E. Warren; illustrations by Alan B. Chesley. Imprint [Annapolis, MD : The Leggett Group, c1997]. Blacks of the Chesapeake through Ebony Eyes, c1999. Image c/o the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 14 of Under the Tree: Interview with UCAC of St. Mary's County, MD Interview with Dr. Janice Walthour (President), Merideth Taylor (Vice President) and Mr. Brown of the Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions in St. Mary's County, MD.Image:UCAC members receive a 2003 Historic Preservation Award from the St. Mary's County Commissioners and the St. Mary's County Historic Preservation Commission. From left: Commissioner Kenneth Dement, Robert Gant, Merideth Taylor, Dr. Janice Walthour, Everlyn Holland, and Elmer Brown. (c/o UCAC Website) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 13 of Under the Tree: Interview with Suzanne Street, Director of Public Relations, University of Maryland Eastern Shore In the continuation of the State to State Series, this interview is with Suzanne Waters Street, Director of Public Relations at the University of Maryland at Eastern Shore, which is located Somerset County, MD. A rundown of plantation life in Somerset County will be covered later. Links: University of Maryland at Eastern Shore The struggle begins: Black students push for admission while a president looks for alternatives. Diamondback Online. Justin Fenton. February 22, 2005. The L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 12 of Under the Tree: Interview with Ms. Felicia Bell, Curator of From Freedom's Shadow Interview with Ms. Felicia Bell, Curator of From Freedom's Shadow: African-Americans & The U.S. Capitol and Director of Education and Outreach of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society http://www.uschs.org Current Exhibit Location Thursday, July 6, 2006 - Friday, September 8, 2006 Location: Carnegie Library (formerly known as the City Museum), 801 K Street, NW at Mount Vernon Square, Washington, DCAdmission: Free Photo: USCHS staff and board members (left to right): Director of Marketing M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 11 of Under the Tree: Interview with Scott Whipple, Administrator, Maryland Historical Trust Interview with Scott D. Whipple, Administrator of the Local Preservations Programs of the Maryland Historical Trust. He will be covering the process for preserving historical structures in the State of Maryland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 9 of Under the Tree: Interview with Mr. Franklin Stewart, Mrs. Evelyn Jordan and Mrs. Monolyne Gaddy, Cecil County, MD This episode continues the State to State Series with Cecil County, MD. I'll review the history of Cecil County and recount some of the early slaveholders. In addition, I'll be presenting an excerpt of an interview with Mr. Franklin Stewart of Port Deposit, MD and Mrs. Evelyn Jordan and Mrs. Monolyne Gaddy. Mr. Stewart is one of the oldest members of Bethel AME in Port Deposit, which was established in 1848. The following books were used for this podcast: McCall, Darlene. E. Genealogic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 10 of Under the Tree: Interview with Mrs. Janet Baker Walker of The Links, Inc. Interview with Mrs. Janet Baker Walker of The Links, Inc.(Photo c/o Washington Life Magazine, December 2004) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 8 of Under the Tree This episode continues the State to State Series with the slave auction process in Baltimore, MD and slave plantations in PG County, MD.The following books were used for this podcast: Lewis, Ronald L. Coal, iron, and slaves : industrial slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1979. Clayton, Ralph. Cash for blood : the Baltimore to New Orleans domestic slave trade. Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 2002. Hienton, Louise Joyner. Prince George's heri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 7 of Under the Tree A continuation of Episode 4 in that the beginnings of the slave trade (632 AD) is covered up to its path to Maryland in the 1700's. This is to provide a frame of reference in Africa, Europe, Caribbean, South America and North America. For this podcast, the following resources were used. Richard Worth. The Slave Trade in America: Cruel Commerce. New Jersey: Enslow Publishers Inc., 2004 Herbert S. Klein. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 6 of Under the Tree Interview with Gina Paige, Cofounder & President of African Ancestry, Inc, a company that assists clients with finding their lineage based on DNA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5 of Under the Tree In this podcast, I'll be discussing the ugly and unfortunate stain of race and class, and the effect it can have on your AA genealogical research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 5 of Under the Tree: Race & Class in AA Genealogical Research In this podcast, I'll be discussing the ugly and unfortunate stain of race and class, and the effect it can have on your AA genealogical research. Suggested Readings: Jacqueline M. Moore. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920. Russell, Kathy; Wilson, Midge;Hall, Ronald. 1992. The Color Complex,: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York.Warner, L. and Davis, A 1939 "A Comparative Stu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 4 of Under the Tree Episode 4 will be the beginning of the series State to State. In this series, I will introduce a brief early history of Maryland and how African Americans fit into that history. In addition I will address the upcoming podcasts associated with Maryland in regards to slaveowners, slaves, and free African Americans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 2 of Under the Tree In today's episode, I addressed how to get started with your family research from a beginner's perspective. To further facilitate your research, please note the following links. - The 6 Phases of African-American Genealogy - Free Genealogy Forms - U.S. Census Bureau Age Search Service Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 1 of Under The Tree Episode 1 of Under the Tree has been uploaded. Within this podcast, I give a brief mission statement and highlight upcoming shows. If you have any comments or suggestions on upcoming topics, please drop me a line below or send an email to feedback@harleefamily.com. Just a note about me. In 1992, I graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park with a degree in English. So, it should be no surprise that the pursuit of research and art of the written/spoken word are always in m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website