A Special Day for A Special Lady: Eula Polk celebrates 109th birthday with family, friends, legislators
A Special Day for A Special Lady: Eula Polk celebrates 109th birthday with family, friends, legislators
Brown-Polk
Birthdays are special, and when you have had 109 of them, they are not only special but they are a true blessing from God.
Such is the case for Eula Viola Brown-Polk of Terry, MS. She is affectionately known as “Aunt V” and she celebrated her 109th birthday Monday, March 24, 2021.
This remarkable Christian woman is still full of vim, vigor and vitality. She is sharp in mind and just as quick witted as she was years ago, and her family wanted to make sure that it would be a special day for a special lady.
Mississippians trace their family tree, and how one can trace theirs
Mississippians trace their family tree, and how one can trace theirs
Associated Press,
That’s how it looked to Melissa Evans when she compared her family tree to the ones created by her third-grade classmates. Some of her white classmates had branches stretching back centuries. Evans, one of only a handful of black students at her school in Gulfport, traced her family to her great-grandparents.
When other students asked why Evans’ tree was so short, their teacher didn’t want to talk about slavery, how it tore apart black families in the United States, and Evans isn’t sure it would have been the right setting for the conversation anyway. More than 30 years later, she remembers the feeling of embarrassment, of lacking something.
With slavery s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors
ISABELLE TAFT, The Sun-Herald
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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) Her tree was incomplete.
That’s how it looked to Melissa Evans when she compared her family tree to the ones created by her third-grade classmates. Some of her white classmates had branches stretching back centuries. Evans, one of only a handful of Black students at her school in Gulfport, traced her family to her great-grandparents.
When other students asked why Evans’ tree was so short, their teacher didn’t want to talk about slavery, how it tore apart Black families in the United States, and Evans isn’t sure it would have been the right setting for the conversation anyway. More than 30 years later, she remembers the feeling of embarrassment, of lacking something.