Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the IE

Name: Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the IE
Address: 5500 University Pkwy, San Bernardino, CA, 92407, US
Telephone: +19095375112

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Founded by Wilmer Amina Carter & William Henry (Ratibu) Jacocks, now held at CSUSB Pfau Library

Photos on site by Henry Hooks, courtesy of San Bernardino County Museum. http://www.sbcounty.gov/museum/

We invite anyone with photos or stories about Black History in the Inland Empire to contact us. We are continuing to do oral histories on Zoom and are interested in collecting photos either online at this site or in person as soon as it is safe to do so.

Operating as usual

03/17/2023

Today for Women's History Month, we honor Tonya Burke. Tonya Burke was born in Carson City, California. As a child, her parents stressed the importance of education and introduced her to a wide variety of literature. She worked through her Bachelor’s degree at UC Santa Cruz. She overcame stereotypes as a single mother pursuing her undergraduate degree. Education was important to her and she continued to push through, despite counselors and naysayers telling her to pack up and go home. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz, she returned home to Carson and worked at a juvenile facility. Later, she earned a Master’s at Pepperdine, where she met and married her husband, Jason. They then settled down in Perris, and it was through her parents' support she ran successfully for Perris City Council in 2014. She also served as Mayor Pro-Tem. This was a historic event as a Black woman in a predominantly Latino community. Her faith and family has guided her, her mother told her “If the front door is locked, go through the side window.”

Thanks for doing an interview with Bridges. We have finished the transcription and will have it uploaded to the Bridges site for everyone to see soon.

03/11/2023

Today in honor of Women's History Month, we honor the work of National Council of Negro Women which was chartered in 1968 as a “collective voice for women.” Lois Carson helped establish and expand the organization throughout the region, building on her earlier work with the social organization Les Jeunes Amies.
NCNW brought the resources of a national organization to the IE, and they worked with other local organizations to “fight discrimination.” With the leadership of many including archive founder Wilmer Amina Carter, the IE section built programs like Checkmates and Bethune Youth Center to help youth and young adults complete high school, graduate college, join the military, and gain employment. “We teach them how to develop a resume, how to dress, how to interview for a job, how to volunteer. We take them to various things so that they understand what else is in their community,” Carson commented. “If they get a good job and they can support a family, that's success, really. If they finish high school, that's a success. And so we work with those who are most in need.”
After serving on the national board for 12 years, Carson founded 6 more NCNW sections throughout the Inland Empire, from Orange County to Perris. This involved training the other sections on how to manage and organize themselves. As NCNW grew, the organization received positive feedback from local communities as “most of the women really wanted it,” Carson remarked. NCNW prioritized the needs of Black women, however, non Black members were welcomed to join. “It’s always been interracial,” Carson noted. “But [members] have to understand that our first priority is Black women and their families. Now if you're after that agenda. Come on in. We want you. We need you.”
Carson also spear-headed a collaboration between NCNW and women-centered organizations in Africa. The Union of Togolese Women and Federation of Senegalese Women engaged in an exchange program with the San Bernardino section. This enabled them to visit Southern California and, conversely, the IE women of NCNW to visit Senegal and Togo.
“I got the University of California and Cal State San Bernardino to indicate that they would be there to help us with this because the women were French speaking,” remarked Carson. “We had one member in our section who grew up in Louisiana and was taking French at Cal State and spoke French very well. So we cited her as someone who would help us communicate with these women.”
Every year, the IE sections come together for the Bethune Height Recognition Program to honor Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of NCNW. Learn more about NCNW by watching interviews with Lois Carson and Wilmer Amina Carter at https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/bridges/

03/08/2023

Southern California’s rare snowfall on Feb. 25 could not keep the more than 120 people from attending a celebration of Mexico’s Afro heritage on the first day of a two-day event presented by Cal State San Bernardino’s Anthropology Museum at the Garcia Center for the Arts in San Bernardino. Read more about the display of Oaxaca’s Afro heritage at the full article.

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03/01/2023

Day #28 Today on the last day of Black History month, we celebrate Orange Valley Masonic Lodge #13, in Riverside’s Eastside (2931 12th St).
In 1905, a group of Black Riverside men formed an investor group, the Colored Mercantile Association, and together chartered the Orange Valley Masonic Lodge #13. Their first act was the construction of a 2-story building, housing Stokes & Wiley grocery store on the first floor and a meeting hall on the second. Lodge members met there, and still do today, along with women’s groups: Hi Hatters, Sub Debs, Eastern Stars. In the 1920s, politicians made this a stump stop. Black civic leaders organized voter registration drives, chartered the NAACP and its youth chapter, and mobilized funds for the defense of the Alabama Scottsboro Boys. Riverside’s incendiary protests of school segregation were organized here at Orange Valley Lodge, and a Freedom School opened, in the same year as Watts burned, 1965. Today, it still stands and continues to serve as a social hub, and as a landmark to the long histories of civil rights, entrepreneurial might, and community spirit.

For more about Orange Valley Lodge #13, see
Susan Straight and Doug McCulloh, More Dreamers of the Golden Dream (Riverside: Inlandia Institute, 2021)
https://midnightbreakfast.com/orange-valley-lodge-13
https://www.facebook.com/orangevalleylodge13/

02/28/2023

Day # 27 Blu Educational Foundation was established in 2001 “as a response to the higher education challenges faced by families with limited income and opportunities in the California’s Inland Empire.” Led by President and CEO Dina Walker, the BLU Educational Foundation develops mentoring, academic advising, college tours, parent involvement, internships, and financial aid that create pathways to college for youth in the region. Blu Educational Foundation has assisted more than 10,000 students through college outreach programs and has awarded more than $700,000 in scholarship funding.
Blu Educational Foundation focuses on the educational needs of Black students who reside in the Inland Empire area and builds partnerships to improve educational equity for Black students. BLU leads the Inland Empire Black Education Agenda report in partnership with the Center for Social Innovation at UCR and the Inland Empire Black Equity Initiative. Their research and advocacy “provides insight to educators as to what Black students and their families note as their top priorities for equitable education” and has helped shape the agenda for Black educational excellence in the IE. President Dina Walker captures the mission best, “What we do is for our entire community…give more opportunities to our residents, give them hope, and create an economy and place where everyone wants to live.”

Learn more about the Blu Educational Foundation here:

https://www.bluedfoundation.org/
https://theievoice.com/race-matters-dina-walker-college-access-advocate/?fbclid=IwAR0Ddn4dAJqod0KL4xUPnzgj1T0kiD7JkAfxbKEArxX2Q9-cG1bQRgAt3jw
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2018/05/25/foundation-spotlight-blu-educational-foundation-helps-inland-youths-plot-path-to-college/?fbclid=iwar32qu_0nrnbipl-e-qhw3tlksam4ckt2rx4qopevlzjrmw5h3ku-nexefa

02/27/2023

Day #26 Founded in 1985, Black Future Leaders is a youth program for high-achieving high schoolers. Freshman and sophomore students partake in a summer residence program on the University of Redlands, UC Riverside, or Cal State San Bernardino campuses. Throughout the school year, participants are required to attend program meetings, field trips, and complete 50 hours of community service.

Jean Peacock, a professor at CSUSB at the time, conceptualized the idea for BFL in purview of Latino Future Leaders. After attending a summer retreat for LFL, Peacock was inspired to create a similar program for Black students. Dr. Tom Rivera, director of LFL, encouraged her idea. “He said he thought that was an excellent idea,” said Peacock in 2016. “And he said, you know, ‘we’ll support you as much as possible.’” Shortly after, Peacock reached out to other prominent Black leaders in the community, such as Lois Carson, Jim King, Marion Black, and Georgia Morris.

Lois Carson explained, “The only difference in our model and the original model is that we decided to take our children on a college campus. I think that [Latino Future Leaders] took them into the mountains for a camp out....We thought it would be better to take them on a college campus.”

Lois Carson added, “At the time, a lot of attention was being paid to at-risk youth…and we thought, ‘what if there was a mechanism or a way where we could change their concepts of the role models, of the really hip kids on campus?’”

Today, BFL resides at CSUSB, where it was founded 37 years ago.

02/26/2023

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02/26/2023

Day #25 The Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California opened October 2022 with the goal of celebrating and advancing the fight for civil rights in the Inland Empire past and present. CRIISC aims to be a living monument to civil rights activism, with ongoing exhibitions, educational programs as well as providing a space for current community leaders and civil rights organizing efforts. They also aim to build a digital archive and to collect oral histories to highlight the diversity of civil rights activities in the IE.

The CRIISC exhibit space is located within a new affordable housing complex with 72 units, which also has offices for Riverside African American Historical Society and Riverside Fair Housing Institute. Stars on the ground around the building celebrate Civil Rights heroes from the Inland region (see stories on their website https://www.inlandcivilrights.org/our-heroes/)

An October grand opening celebration unveiled the CRIISC exhibit space with the inaugural Still We Rise exhibit celebrating Black history in inland Southern California. “The exhibition is a testament to the bold and business-minded Blacks, the Black press, the Black church, Black leaders, and everyday people who fought to thrive in the face of fierce adversity and systemic racism,” said Rose Mayes, Vice President of the CRIISC Board of Directors and Executive Director of the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County.

The Bridges Project collaborated with CRIISC, A People’s History of the IE and Black Voice News on creating StoryMaps for their inaugural exhibit Still We Rise, chronicling African American history in the IE. You can see some of the voices from the archive in the StoryMap on display at the museum. Visit on Thursday or Friday. Here is a sneak preview of one of the StoryMaps on display https://arcg.is/1GWLL0.

02/25/2023

Day #24 Today we honor Black Voice News Foundation’s Footsteps to Freedom program which “teaches empathy through history” according to Hardy Brown Jr. Since 1996, Black Voice News Foundation has been leading teachers and school administrators on an 8 day tour to immerse them in the true history of slavery and the long quest for Black freedom. The tour follows a path from Kentucky to Canada, visiting important sites on the Underground railroad and exploring the impact of slavery on our nation.

Footsteps to Freedom helps to fill an important gap in education in America. “In 2018 a study conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance found that “58% of seniors did not know that slavery caused the Civil War by the time they graduated high school and 78% of these students did not know that slavery protections were written in the founding documents of the United States” (footstepstofreedom.com).

They maintain and display an important collection of primary sources that tell the story of American slavery collected by Jerry Gore, a historian who helped teach participants the Footsteps to Freedom tour for decades. You can see this collection in this Black Voice News StoryMap https://blackvoicenews.com/2021/01/15/footsteps-to-you-chattel-slavery/

In addition to the Footsteps to Freedom program, the Black Voice News Foundation runs other programs “to preserve the African American legacy that includes: a college internship program for local students to gain experience working with the Black Voice News, blackvoicenews.com and other related community-based projects; Califest Studio Workshop, which combines education with the arts; and the California Black Media.

Thanks to Hardy Brown Jr for doing an oral history with the Bridges Archive and all the Brown family’s work to preserve and celebrate African American history. You can read more at:
https://footstepstofreedom.com/
https://blackvoicenews.com/2019/10/15/footsteps-to-freedom-2/

02/24/2023

Day #23 Today we honor the San Bernardino American News, founded by Sam Martin in 1969. Sam Martin was a true newspaper pioneer in the IE, founding the Precinct Reporter and supporting the students who founded Black Voice News as well as publishing San Bernardino American News. Frances Grice remembered him as one of the core community leaders who always supported the Community League of Mothers and other activists in the 1960s and 70s.

Clifton Harris remembers when his father in law would produce the paper with a mimeograph in a garage at his home and prepare the paper on a pasteboard “long before they had computers.” Mary Martin Harris learned the newspaper trade from her father as she grew up, and Clifton Harris learned “selling advertising to make the paper survive.”

Mary Martin Harris continues her father’s legacy as editor of the paper, working alongside her husband Clifton Harris. Thank you for being a voice for the Black community in the Inland Empire.

02/24/2023

02/23/2023

Day # 22 Today, we celebrate Black Voice News, founded in 1972 and has served the community for 50 years. Black students initially founded Black Voice News at UCR, which was frustrated when local papers refused to publish issues of concern to student activists. Led by Artis Lily, the students wanted to "plead their own cause" at UCR. Upon graduation, the newspaper transitioned to community ownership, and Sam Martin was able to assist as publisher. Cheryl Brown and Hardy Brown worked as editors with Mr. Martin, bought the newspaper after his retirement, and continued to build its presence.
Under the leadership of the Browns, Black Voice News was the first Black newspaper on the West Coast to launch a website. Black Voice News also focused on current events in the Black community in the Inland Empire, such as the murder of Tyisha Miller in Riverside by local police in December 1998.
Since 2012, Paulette Brown-Hinds, daughter of Cheryl and Hardy Brown, has led Black Voice News with the continued focus on justice and equity while implementing new technologies such as a focused data reporting approach. Black Voice News also reports on issues prevalent to Black Californians and local communities.
Last fall, the Black Voice News project Mapping Black California partnered with the Riverside African American Historical Society, Civil Rights Institute of inland Southern California, and the Bridges Project to produce StoryMaps of Black history in the Inland Empire. You can visit these installations at the Civil Rights Institute Thursday & Friday or see some of our historical Black history maps here https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/247f267e526d46b7a3a60e611b1a2ac8

02/22/2023

Day #21 Today we recognize The Precinct Reporter founded by Art Townsend and Sam Martin in July 1965. Townsend and Martin understood the necessity for Black residents of the I.E to have a newspaper that represented their voice and their local community. They carefully crafted a newspaper to help people of the I.E. understand the events occurring near their homes. The Precinct Reporter was a key voice for civil rights in the city reporting weekly on the activities of the Community League of Mothers as they fought to end school desegregation in San Bernardino. During this fight, Frances Grice remembers how, “ We were front page in the Precinct Reporter so all the white people start to [run] to get the Precinct Reporter before it got off the press!”

Both Art Townsend and Sam Martin had been deeply involved in engaging the Black community in electoral politics, and Sam Martin became one of the first African American Committee members for the Democratic party in 1962. Their political organizing influenced their decision to choose the name Precinct Reporter for the newspaper. The Precinct reporter also helped mobilize people to support Art Townsend’s run for City Council, and covered every major Black political and social event in the region. Sam Martin ultimately left the Precinct Reporter and founded the San Bernardino American News & Black Voice News by the early 70s. Although their issues are no longer colored orange and on San Bernardino’s door steps, for over fifty years, the Precinct Reporter has been dedicated to represent the I.E.’s past and present events and intend to do so for many years. Art Townsend continued to run the paper until his death and his son Brian Townsend continues the family legacy today. Thank you for decades of service to the community and thanks to Brian Townsend for doing an interview with the Bridges archive to help preserve his family’s history.

Read more about the Precinct Reporter here…
https://www.precinctreporter.com/about-us/

02/21/2023

Day #20 Today we celebrate The Colored Citizen Newspaper, the first Black publication in the Redlands and San Bernardino Valley area. Managed by Robert H. Harbert, The Colored Citizen was printed monthly and featured news, accomplishments and social life of Black people in Redlands and the whole Inland region.
The first edition of The Colored Citizen in July 1905 reported the graduation of Charles Arthur Beal, the son of Israel Beal from Redlands Union High School. Beal was the first Black graduate and athlete (football) at Redlands Union High School.
Horace Harroll provided the financing for the Colored Citizen, with profits from his citrus groves. In 1895, Horace purchased a citrus grove in Crafton (near Redlands) and was able to pay off the mortgage from his purchase within one year, due to the profitability of his groves. The Colored Citizen provided regular news coverage of community leaders like Israel Beal who served as Vice President of the local Afro-American League alongside Horace Harroll who served as President. Although the tenure of The Colored Citizen was brief, The Colored Citizen helped us bring the early Black history of Redlands to life in the StoryMap 1910 Black Redlands – https://arcg.is/19iXCb
Read more about Horace Harroll and Israel Beal in this essay on citrus growers in the IE: http://sweet-sour-citrus.org/essays/african-americans-citrus-growers-in-the-inland-empire/?fbclid=IwAR2A-8CKV1VQU0SWYI8JIRkZaj2BQswOS06zqsJaGvoUttxFJ2Mtv5ymqAU

Today, the A.K. Smiley Library in Redlands, CA maintains The Colored Citizen in its historical archives collection. Read more about The Colored Citizen here:
https://www.sbsun.com/2013/06/08/a-glimpse-at-the-colored-citizen-an-early-redlands-newspaper/

02/20/2023

Day #19 Today we honor the creation of the Black Student Unions (BSU) in the Inland Empire by featuring the memories of Dell Roberts a key leader who supported founding the first BSU at Poly High School in Riverside in 1968. This BSU successfully pushed the school to offer its first Black History class which was taught by Woody Rucker-Hughes and helped to build a generation of Inland Empire leaders.

Student efforts to create Black Student Unions (BSU) grew at colleges and high schools throughout the IE in 1968 and 1969. Dell Roberts was inspired by student activists at UCR who founded the BSU earlier in 1968. Fontana high school students also founded a BSU in 1968, although school district leaders forced them to call it Soul Club. In San Bernardino City school, students successfully won approval for BSU and MeCha chapters after student protests at Cajon High in 1969 as school desegregation efforts escalated tensions among youth.

Dell Roberts became a statewide advisor to BSUs, and continued to lead efforts to celebrate Black history and support youth throughout the region for decades. He and his wife founded the Riverside Black History Parade and Expo in Riverside 43 years ago and they continue to lead the Adrian Dell and Carmen Roberts Foundation's efforts to build community.

02/19/2023

Day #18 Today we honor Akoma Unity Center. Akoma was founded in 2016 by City Councilmember Kimberly Calvin and Dr. Nana Lawson Bush and strives to heal, educate, and transform the Westside community by providing programs for youth and families. Through the use of an African-centered framework this organization works to cultivate healthy families and organize people for racial and climate justice and economic empowerment.

Akoma Unity Center hosts after-school programs and Saturday enrichment activities for kids including: a Community garden, coding club, Film Club, and recently started a new Girl Scouts Troop, continuing the legacy of Anne Shirrells who sponsored the first Westside Girl Scouts troop. They provide on site programs M-F at San Bernardino city schools and Saturday programs at the center.

Located in Anne Shirrells Park, Akoma is helping to keep alive the legacy of historic westside leaders by featuring Anne Shirrells, Frances Grice, Vivian Nash Dukes, John Griffin, Valerie Pop Ludlum, and Bobby Vega in the beautiful mural at their site. The work of these historic leaders provides ongoing inspiration for Akoma’s leaders today.

Read more about the Akoma Unity Center at https://akomaunitycenter.org/

02/18/2023

Today we honor The Group, a grassroots public policy organization dedicated to addressing the Black community's issues in Riverside. Jennifer Vaughn Blakely was a vital leader of The Group, working alongside the Riverside African American Historical Society. Jennifer Vaughn Blakely also founded the Eleanor Jean Grier Leadership Academy, focusing on training for leadership roles for women, people of color, and underrepresented individuals.

Jennifer Vaughn Blakley passed away on January 17, 2022, at 73. However, her memory continues to live through her many contributions to the local community. Thank you, Jennifer, for your strong work ethic and investment in the Inland Empire. Read more about Jennifer here:
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2022/01/19/jennifer-vaughn-blakely-leader-in-riversides-black-community-dies/

02/17/2023

Day #16 Today, we celebrate the Concerned Citizens for the Development of North Fontana. Established by the late Jessie Turner and her daughter Ellen Turner, The Concerned Citizens for the Development of North Fontana was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the 1970s. The Concerned Citizens organization advocates for the needs of the Black community in North Fontana. From the Concerned Citizens organization, the North Fontana Culinary Training Program was established, along with the Fontana Messenger, a local newspaper highlighting news in North Fontana’s Black community. Additionally, the Black Awareness Parade began more than 50 years ago to unify Black families in North Fontana.
In 1970, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors adopted North Fontana as the North Fontana Parks and Recreation District. From this, the Board of Supervisors appointed the Black Awareness Parade Committee members as District Commissioners, with Jessie Turner as Chairperson. Other community services include Thanksgiving baskets, providing employment assistance, and housing assistance.
The city of Fontana established the Jessie Turner Community Center to honor her activism in North Fontana. Unfortunately, Jessie Turner died in Fontana, CA, on December 10, 1981. However, her memory lives on in the local community, as her daughter Ellen Turner operates the Concerned Citizens organization today and continues her mom’s legacy. Thank you, Concerned Citizens for the Development of North Fontana for fighting for the community for decades.

Read more about The Concerned Citizens for the Development of North Fontana here:

https://blackawarenessparade.webs.com/history-of-the-organization
Concerned Citizens for the Development of North Fontana will hold another 'Unity in CommUNITY Day' | News | fontanaheraldnews.com

02/16/2023

Day #15 Today we celebrate San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation which continues a long history of Black organizations celebrating Black history and . Black Culture Foundation has its roots in the Black History Parade committee, which helped to sponsor Black History Day parades in San Bernardino starting in the late 1960s. Key early leaders included Jim King, Juanita Scott, Alonzo Thompson and Margaret Hill who helped coordinate the Black History parade and celebrations for decades. By the late 1980s, the group changed its focus to supporting students with scholarships, instead of just hosting the Black history day parade. They changed their name to the Black Culture Foundation and since the 80s, the Foundation has given more than 125 scholarships to local students. Black Culture Foundation also played a leading role in organizing to build the Rosa Parks statue which was unveiled in 2018 in front of the Rosa Parks Memorial Building in downtown San Bernardino. Black Culture Foundation has been hosting the Black Rose Awards for 20 years, honoring trailblazers and community members making a difference. Launched by Jim King, the Black Rose Award aims to change the narrative for Black communities by highlighting Black excellence and reclaiming the message that Black, like a rose, is beautiful.

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Natalie Collins Diggs was the 1st Black teacher hired in the Rialto Unified School District. Her children Richard & Denise Diggs share that their mother “loved children and loved teaching.” So much so that she would even tutor their childhood friends for free prior to earning her teaching credential at the University of Redlands. Natalie believed that it was important for children to “discover the world” and so she persisted through the several challenges she faced as a black educator. When she first began teaching in Rialto, the superintendent observed her class for two weeks because parents had concerns about their children having a Black teacher. When the superintendent stopped showing up, Natalie assumed she was going to be fired, but instead was offered a full time teaching position in the district. Most teachers in the district weren’t welcoming either and she would sit alone in the teachers lunch room most days. But one day, another fellow teacher, a white woman named Maggie, asked if she could sit with her and they became “friends forever.” In some ways, Natalie was born to teach. Both her parents were teachers in Texas and raised their children to have high academic standards. Through Natalie’s resilience, passion, and foundation she was able to make great strides for black educators in the Inland Empire. Watch Denise Diggs and Richard Collins Diggs tell their mom’s story in this video.

Day #10 Charity Looper 1940s Celebrating Educational Excellence in San Bernardino. Charity Luper ran a private Black school in the Valley Truck farm area in the late 30s and 1940s. She was a widow, born in Colorado, and in 1940 when she was in her early 50s, she lived on Central Ave in a house she rented with Mary Green (aged 73), who had moved from Los Angeles to join her as a partner in the school. Bobby Bivens remembers Black and Mexican kids gathering around a wood burning stove in a one room schoolhouse from the ages of K-6th grade. She had a big old car and would pick up kids to bring them to school and keep close contact with families. He described her as "a stern disciplinarian" "If you acted up, she'd take you out to the woodshed and warm your butt up. Very simple." She was also an extremely effective teacher, and most kids when they left her school were promoted at least a grade ahead. She died in the early 1950s when Bobby Bivens was in the 2nd grade. We celebrate the longstanding commitment to excellence in education in the Black community and the powerful role of Black teachers like Charity Luper. If anyone has stories or photos of Mrs Luper, please share! Wilmer Amina Carter

Day 4 - We celebrate Lois Carson. More videos and stories later today

Lifting up IE Black Educators & Activists for Black History Month -- First Up Margaret Hill Check back tonight for more of her story

If you missed the great panel discussion and celebration of the Bridges Project, you can view the full video now here. Check it out and share with others! And if you have photos or stories to share with us, please fill out this form to get in touch https://forms.gle/u3LsgGUvtdPfFqq47 - Wilmer Amina Carter

Bridges Project Introduction

Thanks to all who came to the Bridges celebration event today. Many panelists told amazing stories, and we will share the full video early next week. For now please enjoy this small video about the project featuring the voices of Wilmer Amina Carter, Lois Carson and Henry Hooks and the amazing music of the Mu-tonics (Clarence Butler, Claude Duckett, Johnnie Taylor, and Joe Townsend).

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As a direct descendant of Black Riverside (Inland Empire) pioneers, I'm looking forward to learning more about my amazing ancestors.

Looking for descendants of DeForest Carroll Jackson, DDS and his wife Beatrice H Woods Jackson last known location was in San Bernadino, CA. DeForest b. in MS (1923-1968 in LA) Beatrice b. TN (1925-2017?) have much family history to share. Please inbox me if you have information. Thank you in advance.

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