Barbara Tolliver Rodgers and the kids at camp Harriett Tubman - Lessons for the next Generation
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Mentor for the Next Generation
Synopsis: The quilts in this book were used in the Underground Railroad escape to the North and into Canada. Mama made some of these quilts and quilted some of them in the fan style similar to some of the slave quilts I had seen in pictures.
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Welcome to our Blog! We are pleased to share a part of the North American (US & Canada), Africa-American history dating back to the 1800's. Read, enjoy, and share our story!
PS Grand parents, parents, and young adults our youth are depending on us.
PS Grand parents, parents, and young adults our youth are depending on us.
Barbara Tolliver Rodgers
Mentor for the Next Generation
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- Barbara Rodgers, Mentor to the Next Generation
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- I am the tenth of eleven children and grew up in our beloved Summerfield Community in Macon, Georgia in the very late thirties. In this community it was family, church school and the Society Hall in that order. I grew up listening to stories of how my father’s father brought his first hundred acres in 1894. He later purchased another hundred acres and had a dairy. The Great Depression came and grandfather died in 1932. We lost the dairy but not the land. Mother’s grandfather was in the Civil War, the Navy. Her grandmother was a Creek Indian. We heard stories about the Great Depression more than slavery. In Summerfield, we had farmers who owned their own land, carpenters, brick layers, mechanic, seamstress ...
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Genealogist, Macon, African American History, Mae Brown, Black History, African American Mentor, Barbara Tolliver Rodgers, AME History, Rev. J. Rodgers
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