Tag: Washington Post

• 22 September 1829-Twenty-seventh entry

  

  This is the journey of Archer, the enslaved property of James Alexander of Lexington, Virginia. Alexander is a member of a caravan of families moving from Rockbridge County, Virginia to Saint Charles County Missouri. If we listen closely to this journal of William Campbell, we might hear the voices of the enslaved… after all this…

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  September 23, 2020

  Journey, Monumnent

  Archer Alexander, Ben Strauss, Chad Davis, Dorris Keeven-Franke, Emancipation Monument, Keith Winstead, Rahaman Ali, St. Louis Public Radio, The Hidden History of the Emancipation Monument, Washington Post, William Greenleaf Eliot

• Muhammed Ali

  Modern science is giving family historians everywhere a big boost. Keith Winstead has been working on his ancestor Wesley Alexander for nearly 30 years, and tried the new technology. The amazing results revealed all kinds of surprises. He knew his family’s connections to Cassius Clay. But it was not until he did further DNA tests,…

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  January 28, 2019

  Blog

  Cassius Clay, DNA, Keith Winstead, Muhammed Ali, Washington Post