Who am I? Where do I come from? What does it mean to be a person of African descent in America? We're all mixed up. I have combined my family's oral histories, collected data from the census, and family photos. These four boxes are labeled with the surnames of my grandparents. Each contains a compilation of records including data from ancestry.com, personal interviews, poems, and photos from family members. African-American history is extremely fragmented. There are many loose ends and often, I could not come to an exact conclusion. I cannot find any information on before the 1890s when the United States was transitioning from the abolition of slavery in 1865 to segregation and the Jim Crow era. For the Wallace side of the family, more information was located since they were Jamaican migrants and not born into slavery. For the Sanders/Cunningham side of the family it was much harder to obtain information such as census data and even photos or oral histories. I have included interviews from both my parents, Anne Bullock and Lawrence Sanders Jr. Along with an interview from my Uncle Jr. who is also known as Uriel Hamilton Wallace. He is my great uncle and my maternal grandmothers brother. This project touches on the ideas of nostalgia and family, and will continue to be an on going project, as facts about my family arise discovered in the future.
