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... African American community Freeney family Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s childhood Describes the Dardens, the family that lived across the street from Rosemarie in Woodlawn. Shirley Darden was Rosemarie’s best friend, and Rosemarie idolized Shirley’s older sister, Sarah. The Dardens were a kind...

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... explain the origins of the mystic and healing traditions in the family, and draws parallels between Grandma Rye and Rosemarie’s own mother, Mama Freeney. Through Grandma Rye’s story, the chapter also speculates about the transformation from the practice of African religions to the acceptance...

... In this chapter, Rosemarie discusses the way her family viewed and handled death—with sadness, but also with a sense of community, as a reaffirming of life. She also talks about some of the things that simply weren’t discussed when she was a child (such as the lynchings that sent the family...

... singer/activist Bernice Johnson Reagon (who lived downstairs from the Freeney-Harding family) used the tones of traditional African American congregational singing to comfort Rosemarie’s Aunt Hettie who had recently lost her daughter. Bernice Johnson Reagon Hettie Jackson singing 201 Ashby...

... Tells the story of Rosemarie’s Uncle Willie Dan, and her father, Daddy Freeney, racing their cars along a Georgia country road. Both cars are filled with family members and when Uncle Willie Dan’s car crashes, the adults go looking for help for an injured Aunt Mary, instructing all the children...

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... This short chapter is a meditation on the way singer/activist Bernice Johnson Reagon (who lived downstairs from the Freeney-Harding family) used the tones of traditional African American congregational singing to comfort Rosemarie’s Aunt Hettie who had recently lost her daughter. Bernice...

... a slave, and Rosemarie felt lucky to hear her stories—even though they were often difficult—since her own grandparents had passed away before she was born. Shirley Darden Darden family Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s childhood stories of slavery ...

... This chapter explores three central values within black religion and culture: hospitality, healing practices, and ghosts/spirit stories. It looks at each topic individually and tells of experiences Rosemarie, her family members, and movement colleagues have had regarding each one. Her...

... circles of protection around all who need it. Rosemarie’s mother, Mama Freeney, asserted that there were many “Harriet Tubmans” during slavery—women who helped their families and friends escape to freedom. protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery Describes...

... Relates Mariah Grant’s personal history and some of her personality traits. This chapter helps explain the origins of the mystic and healing traditions in the family, and draws parallels between Grandma Rye and Rosemarie’s own mother, Mama Freeney. Through Grandma Rye’s story, the chapter also...

... Here Rosemarie discusses Altgeld Gardens, the housing project her family moved to from Woodlawn, and what her life was like there. It was there that Rosemarie, with the encouragement of a teacher, Miss Radcliff, first began to think about going to college. In Altgeld, Rosemarie also learns...

... the way in which African American women have, over generations of necessity, developed a perceptiveness about danger and have learned (like Pachamamas) to draw circles of protection around all who need it. Rosemarie’s mother, Mama Freeney, asserted that there were many “Harriet Tubmans” during slavery...

... Recounts Rosemarie’s parents’ mixed reaction when she and her husband decided to move to Georgia (which the family had left in the 1920s, before Rosemarie was born). The chapter details the violence that sent the family north during the Great Migration, the sense of homecoming Rosemarie...

... Describes the wealthy black woman who lived next door to Mennonite House, and her complicated belief system—she supported integration and civil rights activism, but came from a family that owned slaves themselves, and seemed proud of this as well. Mennonite House wealthy African Americans...