God is always Light, and Truth always prevails.

                                                                                                                          Leslie Caroline    

 

 

 

Voices of the Spirit

Ancestral History

John and Eva Allen,  by Delora Allen

John S. Alves,  by Alice Key

Benjamin & Armanda Decatur by Eddie & Peggy Streeter

Prince Edwards Family,  by Lorriane Edwards Taylor

Henry Bradley Gordon,  by Bootsie Gordon Connerly Ambrose

Frank H. Johnson Family History,  by Lola Johnson Gauff

Alexander and Emma Jane Mackey, by Lorraine Edwards Taylor

Patterson Family History by Alma Patterson Stokes

Edward Williams Story,  by Sue McCoy Strickland

 

Journey of Faith

Allen Chapel A.M.E.  by Rev. Shermella Garrett-Egson

Park Avenue Baptist,  by Louise B. Key

Second Baptist Historical Papers

 

Having our Say

Growing up in Riverside,  by Delora Allen

The Last Fling,  by Lola Johnson Gauff

Unique Historical Experience, by Etta Jordan Hill  "Tillie"

Letter to "The Enterprise" 1925,  by C. J. Lockhart

My Ties to Riverside are Strong,  by Alma Patterson Stokes

Life on McCray Street,  by Laura Frances Hopkins Williams

 

This and That

Settlement House Has Annual Swim 1933  

First Annual Youth Day Parade 1957

Youth Day Congratulatory Letter 1957 

First Riverside Old Timers Picnic Invitation

Halloween at Lincoln Park

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed.  Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge.  Ida B. Wells was a bridge.  Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge.  Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.


-Oprah Winfrey

 

 

 

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