God is always Light, and Truth always prevails.

                                                                                                                          Leslie Caroline    

 

 

 

Voices of the Spirit

Ancestral History

Allen Family  by Delora Allen

Alves Family by Alice Key

Decatur Family  by Eddie & Peggy Streeter

Edwards Family  by Lorriane Edwards Taylor

Gordon Family by Bootsie Gordon Connerly Ambrose

Johnson Family  by Lola Johnson Gauff

Mackey Family by Lorraine Edwards Taylor

Patterson Family  by Alma Patterson Stokes

Williams Family  by Sue McCoy Strickland

 

Having our Say

Growing up in Riverside,  by Delora Allen

Robbin Adair Goodwin Remembered,  by Anna Goodwin Akers

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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