Reflections: Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network, 2019 February/March

Volume XV, No. 3 February/March 2019
By Special Contributor Ruth J. Manley, Graduate Student, Georgia State University
Black Angels: The Last Midwives of Carroll County
enslaved grandmother, Queenie
(surname unknown). She was known
to have often said, “when I deliver my
babies the good Lord tells me what to
do.”2

By the age of eighteen, she
had married and suffered two
miscarriages. In 1909 she borne a son
and later birthed three other children
during her lifetime. From early on in
her life, Mrs. Strickland accompanied
her mother and grandmother and
2 Strickland, Vera. Family oral history, daughter Estelle Manley, 2007.
There are very few people left
in Carrollton, Carroll County,
Georgia who can recall the name
Vera Strickland. The ones who
remember her will immediately
begin to relate stories of how she
could take the fire out of burns or
cured a wound by bandaging it
with red mud and selected plant
leaves. Although she was known to
be able to heal and treat ailments,
Ms. Strickland was most noted for
“catching babies”—the local term for
midwifery.
Mrs. Strickland was born Savera
Woodruff, to parents Thom and
Lizzie Woodruff, around the end
of the Civil War.1
Based on family
records and the US Census data she
was born in Carroll County between
1881 and 1891. Savera Woodruff
was the fifth child in a family of
ten children. Savera would later
record her name as Vera; she was
affectionately referred to as “Mama
Doc” by grandchildren and “Miss
Vera” by friends and the families she
served.
The skill of “catching babies” was
passed down to Mrs. Strickland from
her mother, Lizzie, and formerly
1 1900 census, US Census Bureau.
www.census.gov
Vera Strickland, seated far right, was in the first graduating class of Carroll County
Midwife Training, 1929-1945. Credit Georgia Archives/ Courtesy of Ruth J. Manley
assisted in infant deliveries throughout
the west Georgia communities in
Carroll County.
Until the beginning of the 19th
century, black midwives were left to
themselves to deliver babies of poor
and impoverished black and white
families. In Georgia these women, who
were later referred to as lay midwives,
were in high demand. Georgia’s rural
families relied on the skills and herbal
knowledge of the midwives since white
Continued on page 7
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By Special Contributor Rebecca Rogers
Marketing Director, The Augusta Canal Authority
the AGL’s request for a demolition
permit.
The clock was ticking. Under
the terms of a consent agreement
with the Georgia Environmental
Protection Division, AGL was under
orders to clean up the underground
pollution by 2019. The complexity of
the contamination meant the church
could not remain on its present site
and the cheapest approach was to
raze the building. As an alternative
to demolition, the Authority sought
permission to move the structure onto
an adjacent parcel, but AGL resisted.
Finally in November 2017 a formal
mediation between AGL and Augusta’s
Historic Preservation Commission
yielded an agreement; AGL would
deed both the church and nearby land
to the Augusta Canal Authority and
contribute $300,000 toward the cost
of relocation--provided the move was
completed by June 15, 2018.
Relocation work by JBLJ
Enterprises (d.b.a. Hercules House
Movers) got underway in early 2018.
This process included removing the
mid-twentieth century additions,
salvaging the brick underpinning,
jacking up the structure and placing
remote-controlled hydraulic dollies
underneath the 5,000 square foot
church building. In addition, the
roof was patched and the windows
and doors boarded up. Workers
took three full days to roll Mother
Trinity across Taylor Street to her
new home, arriving by the deadline
of June 15. Total cost of the project
to date is $800,000.
“This has been a challenging
but rewarding project,” said Dayton
Sherrouse, executive director of
the Augusta Canal Authority. In
2018 the Authority was awarded a
$15,000 grant by Georgia Historic
Preservation Division to help
fund an historic structure report
including HABS drawings, and to
begin development of preservation
and reuse plan. “Ideally, we would
have done this study prior to
moving the building, but time
was of the essence, “Sherrouse
explained. He added “We’re very
hopeful that one day Mother Trinity
will once again shine her light in
this community and beyond.”
The Augusta Canal Authority is the
management entity for the Augusta
Canal National Heritage Area
designated by the U.S. Congress in
1996.
Moving Heaven and Earth: Saving Mother Trinity CME Church
Glowing in the torchlight, the
faces of the enslaved and free
people of color shone with reverence
and excitement. As they made their
way through the darkened streets of
Augusta, Georgia that night in 1840.
None in the procession could have
known they were lighting the way to
the birthplace of a major religious
denomination - the Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Yet, after 158 years of worship at
its original location near the banks
of the Augusta Canal, the Trinity
congregation had to abandon their
historic “Mother Trinity” sanctuary. The
reason: contamination from a defunct
manufactured gas plant had poisoned
the ground around and beneath the
church. Atlanta Gas Light Company
(AGL) bought the property in 1997
and the congregation relocated; Mother
Trinity stood empty for almost twenty
years. By 2016 it became clear that the
utility company planned to demolish
the old church.
There was widespread community
sentiment that the church should be
saved. Yet no one came forward to take
lead the effort until the Augusta Canal
Authority stepped in, launching the
“Save Mother Trinity” initiative. The
Authority formed a steering committee
including representatives from Historic
Augusta, Inc., the Lucy Craft Laney
Museum of Black History, Augusta
University, St. John Methodist, the
current Trinity CME church and several
other stakeholders. With a grant from
the Alliance of National Heritage Areas,
the Authority engaged Partners for
Sacred Places to conduct a community
asset mapping event, attended by more
than fifty people. Negotiations with
AGL continued for months. “Save
Mother Trinity” members rallied
at the City’s August 2017 historic
preservation commission to oppose The relocation of Mother Trinity took three days. Courtesy of Augusta Canal Authority
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Trinity Colored Methodist
Episcopal (CME) Church, one of
the founding churches of the CME
denomination, was established by free
and enslaved Africans who moved
their membership from St. John’s
Methodist Church to forge a spiritual
path of their own. According to
James Garvey’s Spirit of the Centuries:
A History of St. John United Methodist
Church, “Negro membership
numbering 300 or more expressed a
desire for a separate place of worship.”
Once permitted to separate, roughly
125 spiritual pioneers set out with
lamps in hand to open a new chapter
in the religious history of Augusta’s
black community. The corner of 8th
and Taylor Streets in Augusta became
the focal point of weekly worship
meetings.1
By 1843 a small prayer
house was constructed that served
as the first meeting place for the
congregation.
There is great significance in
the establishment of Trinity in 1840.
First, Trinity is an antebellum church,
founded 25 years before the passage
of the 13th Amendment that abolished
slavery. Secondly, Trinity predates
the formal organization of the CME
1 Historical Highlights booklet, Trinity CME
Church, May 7, 2015, p.1.
Trinity CME Church as captured by Pamela L. Cook in 2017. Courtesy of Corey Rogers
denomination by 30 years, making it
the oldest CME church in the world. In
effect, Trinity has been a rock for many
generations through the turbulent years
before and during the Civil War, and
maintained its religious and cultural
influence during Reconstruction and
the Jim Crow era.
Initially, Trinity maintained its ties
to St. John’s. On October 14, 1851,
the City Council of Augusta passed a
resolution deeding the lot on the corner
of 8th and Taylor to St. John’s, which
in turn deeded it to Trinity in 1874.2

From 1840 to 1853, St. John’s supplied
Trinity’s leadership. However with
time the church congregation was able
to secure an African American pastor
in the person of Reverend James Harris,
“a slave preacher from Athens, Georgia
and a man of some formal training.”3

With monies collected by the church
congregation, Trinity was able to
purchase Rev. Harris’ freedom and
bring him to serve as the new minister.
After Harris, Rev. Ned West was called
to lead Trinity’s flock and served until
end of the Civil War. During West’s
2 Garvey, James, Spirit of the Centuries: A History of St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1798-
1998, 1998, pp. 77-78.
3 Historical Highlights booklet, Trinity CME
Church, May 7, 2015, p.1.
tenure other denominations began to
recognize the growing importance of
Trinity and thus attempted to grow
their base south of the Mason-Dixon
Line. Both the African Methodist
Episcopal Church and the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
tried to bring Trinity into the fold.4

America was forever transformed
by the Civil War. The end of the war
ensured the freedom, personhood
and citizenship rights for 4 million
enslaved people and 250,000 free
people of color in the South that
had only known chattel slavery and
second-class citizenship. As the
country, but particularly the South,
began its reconstruction, freed
Africans stepped into a world of
entrepreneurial, educational, cultural
and religious opportunities.
It was during this period, 1865 to
1900, Trinity grew and gained national
recognition under the guidance of
pastors Lucius Henry Holsey, R.S.
Williams and James Bray. Williams,
who would become Bishop, was
described as “a model pastor, a
sermonizer of unusually deep logic in
his sermon.”5
Holsey was licensed to
preach in Sparta in 1868 and became
pastor of Trinity in 1869 at the age of
27. He led the move to fully separate
from St. John’s Methodist and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
In his book The History of the
C.M.E. Church, Bishop Othal H. Lakey
continued on page 6
4 Payne, D.A., History of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church New York, Arno Press, 1969;
Bradley, David Henry, A History of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.Tennessee,
Parthenon Press, 1956.
5 Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church Sesquicentennial Celebration booklet,
1990, p. 25.
Trinity CME Church, 179 years as Augustus’ Beacon of Hope
By Contributor Corey Rogers
Historian, Lucy Craft Laney Black History Museum
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Georgia Historical Society 2019 Markers Continues to Recognize Diversity
Compiled by Staff of Georgia Historical Society
Introduction by Melissa Jest, Georgia HPD
The Georgia Historical Society (GHS)
announces its 2019 markers. These
five marker were selected out of 30
applications submitted from around
the state, and recognize the important
people and events that have shaped
Georgia’s past and present. As a
class, this year’s approved markers
also feature the experience and
contributions of African Americans and
Native Americans in Georgia.
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The Attempted Assassination of Isaiah
H. Lofton - Hogansville, Toombs
County
The attempted assassination of
Hogansville Postmaster Isaiah Lofton in
1897 garnered widespread newspaper
publicity, with over 100 news articles
from New York City to Hawaii. The
event challenged the power of the
U.S. Presidency against prevailing
Southern attitudes. The assassination
attempt focused national attention on
African American civic leadership, and
led to the formation of the NAACP.
The NAACP connection makes this a
seminal part of the Georgia Civil Rights
Movement that came later, in the 1950s
and 1960s. Postmaster Lofton remained
in Hogansville for three years after he
was shot, saying “I would rather stay
here and be killed than surrender my
rights.” An article, “Serving Under
Fire” by UGA professor Tony Low
recaps the incident in the August 2016
issue of Georgia Backroads .
The marker is sponsored by the City
of Hogansville and will be located in
Hogansville near the intersection of
Main and Boozer Street and near where
accounts report Lofton was shot. The
unveiling is scheduled for this fall.
Enslaved People of Butler Island
Plantation - Darien, McIntosh
County
There are currently two historical
markers on Butler Island: one
erroneously credits the Dutch with
having dug the canals, the other
recognizes Butler family authors.
Because they were erected in 1957,
neither marker mentions slavery or the
enslaved people who made the family’s
wealth--and Pierce Butler’s lavish
lifestyle in Philadelphia--possible.
Today, historians wish to rectify that
glaring (and undoubtedly intentional)
oversight, and acknowledge the unpaid
and unappreciated labors of thousands
of people whose names will never be
known. Many of these individuals
made their way back to McIntosh
County after the Civil War, and many
of their descendants remain in the
area to this day. The unveiling is
scheduled for March 3, 2019.
The marker is sponsored by the
Vanderkloot Fund and the Lower
Altamaha Historical Society. It will be
located near the plantation site on US
Highway 17.
Leesburg Stockade - Leesburg, Lee
County
The Civil-War-era Leesburg Stockade
structure in Lee County and the
black girls once wrongly imprisoned
within its walls are of local, state,
and national historical importance.
This nomination deserves a historical
marker so that people local and
abroad are aware of the courage,
sacrifice, and perseverance displayed
by adolescent African-American
girls deprived of their Civil Rights.
While many are aware of the civil
rights strides made by the likes of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rep. John
Lewis, and Rosa Parks, far fewer
know about the courageous kids who
stood alongside those heroes in the
fight for human rights.
A 1897 rendering from the Chicago Tribune
Courtesy of Georgia Backroads magazine
View of Butler Plantation from US 17.
Credit: Melissa Jest/ HPD
View of Leesburg Stockade from GA 195.
Credit: Melissa Jest/ HPD
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The events surrounding the Leesburg
Stockade took place at the height of
Dr. King’s and SNCC’s push to end
segregation and racial injustice in
South Georgia. To date, there is nothing
specifically recognizing the Stockade
Girls or the surprisingly still-standing
Civil War era Leesburg Stockade in
Leesburg, Albany, or Dawson. Fiftyfive years after the incidents inside the
Leesburg Stockade occurred, those still
living among the Leesburg Stockade
Girls have yet to receive any formal
apology or recognition for the injustices
they wrongfully endured at the hands
of Americus, Leesburg, Albany, and
Dawson, Georgia officials. This marker
is is sponsored by Lee County High
School’s AP English Classes and Beta
Club in cooperation with several local
families, business and Lee County
Board of Education.The marker is to be
installed near the Stockade this fall.
Mary Musgrove - Savannah, Chatham
County
Mary Musgrove made communication
possible between the Yamacraw
Chieftain Tomochichi and its English
founder General Oglethorpe as their
bilingual interpreter. She also played a
vital role in fostering relations between
the Natives and the colonists as a peace
negotiator. John Wesley, in 1736, said:
“Tomochichi’s interpreter was one Mrs.
Musgrove. She understands both
languages being educated amongst
the English. She can read and write
and is a well civilized women. (sic)
She is likewise to teach us the Indian
tongue.” In 1993 Mary Musgrove was
inducted into the Georgia Women of
Achievement, an organizational idea
of First Lady Rosalynn Carter in 1988
and founded by Wesleyan College
alumnae in 1990.
The National Society of The
Colonial Dames-Georgia will sponsor
this marker for Mary Musgrove to be
installed in a prominent place in the
National Landmark District so that
visitors to Savannah can be aware of
her invaluable contributions.
The unveiling is set for April 26, 2019.
Tabernacle Baptist Church –
Augusta, Richmond County
Tabernacle has served as a driving
force for progressive ideas,
entrepreneurship, and educational
and spiritual uplift in the greater
Augusta area for much of the last
century. Because of its geographic
location at the heart of the African
American community, it became
the most visible and visited African
American church in the area. It
was the planning area and staging
ground for Augusta’s Civil
Rights Movement. Because of
the popularity of its ministers,
particularly founder C.T. Walker
and the Reverend C.S. Hamilton,
Tabernacle became a magnet
for many popular faces going
back to the early 1800s. John D.
Rockefeller, Booker T. Washington,
the Fisk Jubilee Singers, World War
I hero Needham Roberts, George
Washington Carver, and President
William Howard Taft all visited
the church, in some cases multiple
times. In later years Ambassador
Andrew Young, Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays, Reverends Jesse Jackson and
Al Sharpton, Senator John Edwards,
and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
addressed the community from the
pulpit of Tabernacle.
The marker installation is
proposed near the church located
on Laney Walker Boulevard,
formerly named Gwinnett Street.
Tabernacle Baptist Church is a
contributing structure with the
Laney-Walker National Register
District significant for its wide
variety of modest residential,
commercial, and institutional
buildings dating from the mid-19th
through the early 20th century. The
unveiling is set for August 20, 2019.

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The Georgia Historical Society has
administered Georgia’s historical
marker program since 1998,
erecting over 250 new historical
markers across the state on a
wide variety of subjects. GHS also
recently assumed responsibility
for coordinating the maintenance
of damaged and missing markers
erected prior to 1998.
To explore Georgia’s markers,
report damage to a marker,
apply for a marker, visit https://
georgiahistory.com .
Rendering of Mary Musgrove with Gen.
Oglethorpe. Courtesy of Ed Jacksion/Georgia
Studies Images
Tabernacle Baptist Church built 1885
Courtesy of Lucy Craft Laney Museum
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Trinity CME Church, 175 years as Augustus’ Beacon of Hope
Contined from page 3
Trinity pastor Rev. Herman Gates Jr. (center) and oldest
member Margaret Parramore (center seated) pose at
the 2016 GHS marker unveiling at the church’s orginal
location. Credit: Melissa Jest/HPD
describes Holsey as the “Father of
Education in the C.M.E. Church.”6

Holsey was also a strong supporter
of education in Augusta, particularly
Ware High School.7

In 1871 the Trinity church family
had much to celebrate as Holsey
was elevated to bishop, becoming
the youngest member of the CME
denomination to hold the position.8

Holsey served as a spokesman and
representative for the CME Church
for more than 40 years.
Trinity would host to three general
conferences for the denomination in
1873, 1886, and 1910.
Trinity and the CME Church
denomination would solidify its
place in the annals of educational
development when it partnered with
their white brethren of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South to give rise
to Paine College in 1882.9
Booker T.
Washington would later praise Paine
College as a model for black and
white cooperation in a post-slavery
South.
The Jim Crow segregation became
firmly entrenched in early 20thcentury America. As America
became embroiled in WW I in 1917,
many African Americans were sent
across the Atlantic to fight for the
country.10 At the same time there
was a mass exodus of Southern
blacks north and west escaping
the deep-seated racism in search
6 Lakey, O.H., The History of the C.M.E.
Church, Memphis CME Publishing house,
1985 p. 246.
7 Old Springfield: Race and Religion in
Augusta, Georgia, p. 68, Cashin, Dr. Edward.
8 TLakey, O.H., The History of the C.M.E.
Church, Memphis CME Publishing house,
1985 p. 227.
9 OConnor, Allison, “Paine College, Augusta 1882 “ Black Past.org January 10, 2010,
https://www.blackpast.org/african-americanhistory/paine-college-1882/
10 According to “Notes Among the Colored”, August 1917, Dr. John Wesley Gilbert
served as a French instructor in the United
States Army during World War I in Europe.
a better life. In 1929 economic depression
hit the United States, rendering thousands of
unemployed. Yet, while American grappled
with social and political issues, Trinity
remained a constant source of strength for
African Americans living in the Augusta and
produced leaders with its denomination. Four
of its former pastors elevated to CME Bishop
including Bishop R.A. Carter, one of the first to
graduate from Paine College in 1891.11
The post-World War II era saw Trinity as a
force for change in the Augusta community.
In May 1948 Trinity welcomed Morehouse
President and civil rights intellect Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays as the keynote speaker for
their Mother’s Day Program. Trinity pastor
Rev. Larry Fryer was an active presence in
Augusta’s Civil Rights Movement. Many
civil rights meetings were held at Trinity.
According to longtime Trinity member
Lucretia Brown, whose church lineage goes
back to the original 125 founders, it was during
Fryer’s tenure that his friend entertainer James
Brown would visit on a regular basis.
11 Black Past, “1923 Bishop Randall Albert Carter
‘Whence & Whither’ “ Black Past.org. January 28, 2007
Trinity CME church also produced
several members that excelled in
their respective fields in Augusta and
beyond: Paine College professor John
Wesley Gilbert considered one of the
great linguists of his generation and the
first African American archaeologist;
J.C. Mardenborough succeeding editor
of the publication, “Notes Among
the Colored”; Channing Tobias who
worked with the NAACP during
the Brown v. Board of Education
case in 1954 and orchestrated of the
denomination’s name change from
“Colored” to “Christian” in 1954; Carrie
Mays, the first woman elected to the
Augusta City Council, and co-founder
of the Georgia Association of Black
Elected Officials (G.A.B.E.O.); her
son Willie Mays, the second African
American to serve as mayor of Augusta;
W.C. Ervin, the first African American
elected to the Richmond County
Board of Education; Luvenia Pearson
founder of the first school of beauty and
cosmetology for blacks in Augusta.
On September 23, 1993, the AugustaRichmond County Historic Preservation
Committee unanimously named
Trinity CME Church a local historic
site. The last service at the original
location was held on August 2, 1998
where Bishop Othal H. Lakey delivered
the sermon. The Trinity congregation
broke ground the new church site on
Glenn Hills Drive on October 24, 1999,
and the new church was completed
in June 2001. Rev. Herman “Skip”
Mason was appointed as Trinity’s 39th
pastor and currently leads the historic
congregation.
In its 175 years “Mother Trinity” has
been a beacon of hope and mastery
within the CME Church denomination
and to the Augusta community. The 21st
century provides a new canvas on which
Trinity will paint a positive picture
of cooperation and collaboration in
Georgia and beyond.
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Black Angels: The Last Midwives of Carroll County
doctors sometimes refused to deliver
black babies and treat illnesses in black
communities. Carroll County did not
acquire a black doctor until 1940.3

In 1875 Georgia’s General
assembly created the first healthrelated agency.4
The agency ceased
functioning two years later. Then the
State Board of Health was established
in 1903. In 1925 the State Board of
Health regulated black midwives by
supervising and training them for
licenses. Georgia’s state board allowed
midwives to deliver babies by “old
laws” meaning that for generations,
midwives used the knowledge and
skills orally passed down to them from
their African ancestors, a practice
that had survived the Middle Passage.
The state had little or no interest
was placed on their standards and
procedures.
5
By 1930 the State Board
of Health demanded that all lay
midwives complete required training,
obtain a license, be registered with
the board of health, and wear caps,
masks, and hospital gowns while
practicing. Lay midwives were also
subjected to unannounced bag checks
and monthly meetings. Licenses
and medical bags were issued on the
completion of their training.6
Other
federal laws, state regulations and
aggressive intimidation tactics by
medical boards signaled the beginning
of the decline of black lay midwifery
in Carroll County and across the state
of Georgia. Women who could not or
would not comply with the regulations
were forced out of practice.
In 1953, an educational
3 1940 census, US Census Bureau.
www.census.gov.
4 Jackson, Edwin L.,Handbook of Georgia State
Agencies, Second Edition, 1988 Georgia Department of Archives and History, Carl Vinson
Institute of Government, University of Georgia.
5 Campbell, Marie, 1946. Folk Do Get Born,
Rinehart and Company, New York
6 Ibid.
film produced by The Georgia
Department of Public Health, “All
My Babies,” featuring Mary Francis
Hill Coley of Albany, Georgia, was
used for the training and promotion
of cooperation between the health
departments and the midwives.7
In 1940, Kentucky author and
folklorist Marie Campbell, came to
teach English, folklore, and creative
writing, at Carrollton’s West Georgia
College, and Carrollton High School.
While working in Carrollton, she
received a Guggenheim Fellowship
for Creative Writing and authored
the book Folks Do Get Born (1946), a
study of birthing practices based on
interviews with African American
midwives in rural West Georgia.8
7 Stoney, G.C., “All My Babies”, Medical
Audio Visual Institute. 1953 Retrieved Sept. 3,
2017, National Film Preservation Foundation.
https://www.filmpreservation.org/preservedfilms/screening-room/all-my-babies-1952
8 Taylor-Caudill, H. Marie Campbell
Papers. Retrieved Sept. 3, 2017, Explore
UK website https://nyx.uky.edu/fa/
findingaid/?id=xt7q5717nd6b
Discovered packed away with
Strickland’s records of her lifelong
practice and personal effects was the
book Folk Do Get Born autographed and
given to her by Marie Campbell. It is
likely that she was one of the midwives
interviewed by Marie Campbell.
Mrs. Strickland died in March
1983; it was believed that she was 103
years old. Like other lay midwives, she
weathered the political, economic, and
social changes that lead to the demise of
the Black lay midwife in Carroll County,
Georgia. Mrs. Strickland was the only
lay midwife verified by the Georgia
Department of Public Heath’s Midwives
Annual Certification Action Records to
have practiced in Carroll County from
1965 until the mid-1970s.
Ruby J. Manley, is a graduate student in
the African American Studies Master’s
Program at Georgia State University.
She seeks to research and preserve the
legacy of the black lay midwives of Carroll
County, Georgia. Ms. Manley is the
granddaughter of Vera Strickland.
An anutographed copy of Folk Do Get Born was found amongst documents from Mrs.
Strickland ‘s life work. Courtesy of Ruth J. Manley
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The Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network (GAAHPN)
was established in January 1989. It is composed of representatives from
neighborhood organizations and preservation groups. GAAHPN was formed in
response to a growing interest in preserving the cultural and built diversity of Georgia’s
African American heritage. This interest has translated into a number of efforts
which emphasize greater recognition of African American culture and contributions
to Georgia’s history. The GAAHPN Steering Committee plans and implements ways
to develop programs that will foster heritage education, neighborhood revitalization,
and support community and economic development.
The Network is an informal group of over 3,000 people who have an interest in
preservation. Members are briefed on the status of current and planned projects and
are encouraged to offer ideas, comments and suggestions. The meetings provide
an opportunity to share and learn from the preservation experience of others and to
receive technical information through workshops. Members receive a newsletter,
Reflections, produced by the Network. Visit the Historic Preservation Division
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