“During the last years of Reconstruction ... Royall’s company trained many prominent Black funeral directors in the state through an apprenticeship program.” The Bynes family were Brooklyn ...

At that time, white owners of funeral homes did not desire to service Black families ... integrated transportation starting in 1872. The Reconstruction Era did not produce 40 acres (nor the ...

The lessons that I learned growing up about the power of storytelling to change politics, legislation and the ways entire communities related to each other, reverberate now more than ever.

helped Black families bury their loved ones at a time when white-owned funeral homes would not. "This is the days of Jim Crow, when it was established; after the Civil War; after Reconstruction ...

Reprisals against any white person who supported Black civil rights largely silenced dissent. This second rebellion hastened the national retreat from Reconstruction. Federal troops effectively ...

Elgin pastor, scholar and author Felicia LaBoy will speak about significant Black women during the reconstruction after ... collected by the Symonds-Madison Funeral Home in Elgin to be distributed ...

Williams takes aim at “the ‘failure’ narrative of Reconstruction.” What she offers instead is an account of the era as a merciless “war on freedom,” waged on newly freed Black people ...