the Black Syracuse Community History and Mapping Project

Alice Dismuke

In Oral History Interviews on May 20, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Alice Dismuke was born in Perry, Georgia in 1934, the eleventh out of twelve children.  Her family moved to Lowell, Florida when she was just four or five years old.   Here she is being interviewed by her niece, Tasneem Grace Tewogbola, on July 19th, 2010.

My dad was, would take us out of school and we would go to Bean City, Florida. While the other children were in school, we were picking beans for our livelihood.

Richard Breland Photography

In Photographs on May 5, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Bobbie Herman and Bernice Gorgeous 1956

Martin Irons & Clara Brown 1956


Letitia Harris

In Oral History Interviews on April 20, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Letitia Harris is the daughter of famed painter Falstaff Harris.  Here she is talking about her older sister, Joan Harris SouthGate, when being interviewed by Joan Bryant and Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Yeah.  I’ll talk to my sister, see if she remembers.  She, talk about a character, that’s my sister.  My sister’s 83.  I had to go see her.  She walked to Canada.

She walked?  Did she follow the Underground Railroad?  Yes.

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