Daughter Dialogues
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Listen to real-life stories from women of color who honor their ancestors' fight to achieve independence for the United States of America and are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The host, Reisha Raney, a black leader in the DAR and a direct descendant of President Thomas Jefferson's grandfather, is conducting research as a Harvard University non-resident fellow, under the direction of Henry Louis Gates, Jr, host of the PBS Special "Finding Your Roots", exploring the lives of DAR members of color and their ancestry which includes men and women of American Indian, black or African descent, and white or European descent who contributed to the founding of the USA. Who are these descendants? What challenges did they overcome researching their genealogy? New episodes are released every Thursday. Visit DaughterDialogues.com to subscribe to the newsletter and meet more members of color. Follow us @DaughterDialogs on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. This is not an official podcast of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). This podcast is independent and does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the NSDAR. The President General is the official spokesperson of NSDAR.
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Daughter Dialogues season two: Reflection
May 06, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBAnnouncing the end of season two, Daughter Dialogues will return on Thursdays in September (postponed until February 2022). This episode includes observations in review of season two, listener comments, podcast statistics, announcements of live virtual events to interact with the Daughters, and a season three preview. Hear the status of breaking the series into seasons and pace of the research project; common shared experiences among the Dialogues, new! from season two: bold women, connect...
Yolanda Bogan: Psychologist. Croatan Indian patriot. Health and racism pandemics.
April 29, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBYolanda discusses her Croatan Native American Revolutionary War patriot Ephraim Manuel, son of 7th great grandfather Nicholas Manuel who was enslaved with his wife Bungey, both being of African descent in Elizabeth City County, Virginia; Nicholas migrating to Croatan territory in Samson County, North Carolina after he was freed from slavery in 1718; the Daughters of the American Revolution listing her patriot as Native American since his great grandson Enoch Manuel was Croatan and listed Eph...
Carol Hector-Harris: Journalist. Never enslaved Africa born patriot, Ghana.
April 22, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBCarol talks about descending from Quock Martrick, born in 1756 Ghana, Africa, who served with George Washington in the American Revolution and was with Benedict Arnold when he left his post; spending three years searching for Quock’s slave master, assuming he had one as always taught in school about blacks in America, but never finding one; going before a council of Ga-Adangbe tribal elders for permission to meet her ancestral relatives in Big Ada then, the family giving her the name of Akut...
Dawn Dance: Brain trauma survivor. I’m not “nothing” anymore.
April 15, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBDawn discusses surviving multiple traumatic brain conditions; being called both a honkey and the “N-word” as a Creole mixed race child growing up in California; being a Georgetown University 272 slave descendant; and descending from Marie Therese Coin Coin, a slave owner of African descent who was herself formerly enslaved, seeming like cannibalism, the love match of her Frenchman Revolutionary War patriot Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer from Natchitoches, Louisiana. She shares accounts of suf...
True Lewis: Veteran. Women shouldn’t be in the military.
April 08, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBTrue talks about her family legacy of four generations of firstborns, with her being the first woman, serving in the U.S. Armed Forces; joining the U.S. Army despite her “mom” (grandmother) and birth father feeling that women should not be in the military but with the support of her "dad" (grandfather), the ultimate decision maker; becoming a food service specialist like her birth father; serving for seven years in Korea and Egypt until her military career was cut short because of a rare aut...
Marcia Lamar: Travel Manager. Yank, white Frank’s black nickname troubles.
April 01, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBMarcia talks about how the Clotilda, the last ship that transported slaves after their trade from Africa was abolished, carried the captives who bought land to create Africatown in Alabama, where her father lived; disheartened learning her ancestors did not come from the Clotilda; her pipe smoking maternal great grandmother, Deland, chopping off a white man's foot after being called a name while enslaved; the death certificate of her white maternal grandfather Moses Wilson's enslaved mulatto...
Karen Harmon: Pianist, scientific editor. Proud to descend from bold women.
March 25, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBKaren talks about great aunt Bernice Gaines Hughes, the first black female Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Armed Forces, serving in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in England and France WWII, aviation cadet; maternal 2nd great grandmother arriving in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1862 as a fugitive slave, a nurse in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, casting her first vote in 1929, fluent in Spanish and honored on a plaque; visiting relatives passing for white in Oakley, Kansas with her maternal g...
Gabrielle Burrell: Acadian’s towering Daughter. Braving shyness, descendants’ ties.
March 18, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBGabrielle shares how towering over her family at 6’2”, she struggled to overcome nervousness about joining the Daughters of the American Revolution in which she discovered new-found black and white relatives who were members that share descendancy from her Acadian Revolutionary War patriot Pierre Richard whose descendant Telismar Richard, a Frenchman from Arnaudville, Louisiana, had a son Joseph Richard with Elizabeth John, a mulatto possibly working as a maid for family; their never marryin...
Nicka Smith: Ancestry consultant, Cherokee slave owner’s descendant, Nation citizen.
March 11, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBNicka Sewell-Smith discusses attaining her Cherokee Nation citizenship; being a descendant of Cherokee Old Settler Chief John Rogers Jr., who by force, reproduced with her 4th great grandmother Annie May, of African descent and enslaved by another Cherokee, resulting in their daughter Martha May who became a teacher; Martha’s son, Isaac Rogers, enlisting in the 1st Kansas U.S. Colored Troops, working for a "hanging judge" in Arkansas, capturing outlaw Cherokee Bill who was later hung, then, ...
Pazetta Mallette: Mathematician, Native American History Orator, Best All-Around.
March 04, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBPazetta shares oral history about growing up in Boyce, Louisiana on a former plantation, living in the caretaker’s home with slave cabins on the property; her Choctaw Indian great grandmother Milly being traded by an Indian chief, possibly her father, for a horse as a child; her great grandfather, Revolutionary War patriot descendant Captain Henry Newton Berryman, and his first wife, Helena, a white woman, raising Milly then, him having an affair with her, resulting in a child, Many, neither...
Leslie McKesson: Equity Professor. Theodosia’s two Revolutionary War husbands.
February 25, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBLeslie talks about Theodosia, who ran off with cousin and Leslie’s Revolutionary War patriot, William Dula (Dooley) of Irish descent, leaving her first husband, Revolutionary War patriot John Patrick McMullan, and their children without divorcing; the McMullan family being told that Theodosia died; learning her long-time white friend and colleague descended from McMullan and they are both Theodosia’s 4th great granddaughters, then joining the same DAR chapter; William’s grandson James “Alfre...
Karen Batchelor: First black DAR member. It took a village.
February 18, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBKaren discusses being admitted to the DAR in 1977 as the first known black member by defying resistance within the society; inquiring about admission to the DAR by writing local chapters, upon the suggestion of archivist and friend Margaret Ward; not knowing if there were other black members, reaching out to two Detroit, Michigan chapters, sharing that she was black, but never hearing back; being unable to meet the requirement of attaining the sponsorship of two members since no one would in...
Karen Batchelor: First black DAR member. Genealogical pioneer.
February 11, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBKaren talks about discovering her white Revolutionary War patriot William Hood, who earned her place as the first black woman to be admitted to the DAR; her white maternal great grandmother Jennie Daisy Hood marrying black Prince Albert Weaver, in 1889 Ohio; Jennie’s mother not allowing her to bring her children with her to visit because they were showing their colored heritage; her paternal ancestor Isaiah Parker buying enslaved Charity Ann from his father's estate, living with her, and pur...
Karen Batchelor: First black DAR member. Somebody has to.
February 04, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBKaren shares stories about how her childhood shaped her into a pioneer having the courage and resilience to defeat opposition she faced when applying to become the first black member of the DAR; her parents being fervent civil rights activists and requiring her to ride a bus one and a half hours each way to integrate a school "because somebody has to", describing it as the “worst year of my life”; being shaped by growing up in Detroit, Michigan in the 1950's and 60's; growing up reading book...
Daughter Dialogues season two: Preview
February 01, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes - 4.39 MBStarting off Black History Month with the first black member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Karen Batchelor, Daughter Dialogues returns for season two on the first Thursday of February! Learn what to expect to hear from Karen and from other black members of the DAR who descend from men and women who fought for the independence of the United States of America. New episodes are released every Thursday. Subscribe to the newsletter at www.daughterdialogues.com Follow us @Daug...
Daughter Dialogues season one: Reflection
November 05, 2020 05:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBAnnouncing the end of season one, Daughter Dialogues will return on the 1st Thursday of February at the start of Black History Month. This episode includes observations in review of season one, listener comments and shout outs to social media followers, podcast statistics, announcements of live virtual events to interact with the Daughters and the official acceptance of Daughter Dialogues for deposit into a Harvard library, and a season two preview. Hear the reasons behind the decision to br...
Charlotte Chatfield: Clinical trials. White female ancestor's black child, 1871.
October 29, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBCharlotte shares stories about her white great-great-great-grandmother who had a child with a black man and descended from Revolutionary War patriot William Lindsey Durham whose grandson is the namesake of the city in North Carolina; and her Welsh ancestry, descending from free people of color of Chatham County, North Carolina who trace back to patriarch Moses Myrick of Wales. She talks about growing up in the small close-knit community of Pittsboro, North Carolina; dropping out of NC A&T an...
Charlotte Chatfield: Veteran. White female ancestor's black child, 1871.
October 29, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBCharlotte shares stories about her white great-great-great-grandmother who had a child with a black man and descended from Revolutionary War patriot William Lindsey Durham whose grandson is the namesake of the city in North Carolina; and her Welsh ancestry, descending from free people of color of Chatham County, North Carolina who trace back to patriarch Moses Myrick of Wales. She talks about growing up in the small close-knit community of Pittsboro, North Carolina; dropping out of NC A&T an...
Bianca Alexander: Global educator, principal. Creole colorism, classism.
October 22, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBBianca talks about leading schools in the Middle East; and her Creole culture in which cousins intermarried to remain fair complexioned and preserve their culture, her grandmother deciding to passe blanc (pass for white), being adamant about not being African, and being shunned by her family because she had less European features than her siblings and associated with blacks; and her family's Creole social status and wealth attained in the Cane River, Louisiana community by former slave Marie...
Sharri Phillips: Farmer’s Daughter. Fueling Lincoln’s assassin, Christiana Riot.
October 15, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 68 MBSharri talks about her family’s effect on Abraham Lincoln’s assassin during an intertwined story concerning the Fugitive Slave Act, negotiated by her maternal relative U.S. Senator Henry Clay, inciting the Christiana Riot in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where her paternal ancestors were protecting fugitive slaves; Frederick Douglass assisting her ancestors to reach the Elgin Settlement in Canada on the Underground Railroad; growing up on a dairy farm in Lapeer, Michigan, living in an 1846 ...
Stephani Miller: Life Coach. Exposing falsified and denied oral histories.
October 08, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBStephani talks about how her Revolutionary War patriot James Due was not Scottish but instead a black man living with a white woman; and proving that her ancestor Vilmont Schexnayder was born to Norbert, a white man who had a child with a slave, which Norbert’s descendants denied. She discusses growing up in San Jose, California; working as a pediatric home care nurse in Sacramento, CA; opening a group adult residential home with her mother and family; running a Supported Living Coaches, Per...
Shelley Murphy: From survivor to Jefferson’s enslaved laborers researcher.
October 01, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBShelley tells about her journey from surviving as a high school drop-out, victim of domestic abuse, and a young single mother to earning her doctorate and becoming a University of Virginia researcher, investigating president Thomas Jefferson’s beloved university and the enslaved laborers who built it. She talks about growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan; her fervent love of the military and dropping out of high school out of anger since she was not allowed to graduate early to join the Army;...
A’Lelia Bundles: Madam C.J. Walker and a Family Legacy of Pioneers
September 24, 2020 04:00 - 2 hours - 84.5 MBAuthor of the biography that inspired Self Made, the Netflix series about her great-great-grandmother Madam C. J. Walker, an entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist and hair care industry pioneer, A’Lelia Bundles talks about her direct lineal descent from two Revolutionary War patriots through her biological grandmother Fairy Mae Bryant who was adopted by A’Lelia (nee McWilliams) Walker, the only daughter of Sarah Breedlove (Madam C. J. Walker), and became known as Mae Walker. A’Lelia shares ...
Holly Henderson: Autism Advocate. Ancestors’ genetic morse code.
September 17, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBHolly discusses raising three Uniquely Special children on the Autism Spectrum, each with accompanying health challenges, after leaving her position as a gubernatorial appointee working as the Deputy Director of Communications for BWI Airport and subsequently being selected to be the Director of Communications for the Maryland Transit Administration. She tells her story of flying to Munich, Germany to search for her German grandmother at the age of 14 as her German-born father, who was lega...
Adrienne Abiodun: Part 2. Overcoming generational shame.
September 10, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBAdrienne talks about how she discovered that the black man listed as the father on her grandfather's birth certificate was a lie but instead was a white man named James Moffett from 1924 segregated Mississippi; working through generational shame, anger and pain about her slave owning white ancestry; her grandfather's connection to Revolutionary War patriots; the story of how the family of George Leighton, son of her Revolutionary War ancestor Samuel Leighton, in Massachusetts, wrote him off ...
Adrienne Abiodun: Part 1. Off the grid globetrotter. Enduring loss.
September 03, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBAdrienne discusses the need for greater suicide prevention support for military personnel after she endured losing her father, who served in the U.S. armed forces, to unaddressed mental trauma; losing her hearing at 16 years old from a car accident; how her off the grid exploration in Tajikistan’s Wahkan Valley in the Pamir mountains led to her interest in DNA testing for genealogy and a search for her heritage after having learned that her dad was not her biological father at 10 years old; ...
Michelle Campbell: Part 2. John Hart’s acknowledged dual family.
August 27, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBIn continuation from Part 1, Michelle shares the story of her ancestor’s acknowledged white city and black rural dual-family arrangement in Macon, Georgia. She talks about how she presented her lineage research findings of the prominent John Hart, grandson of Revolutionary War patriot Robert Hart, providing for her black ancestor Hettie Valentine and their children on his land in the countryside while also maintaining a white family in the city, at an impromptu gathering of 100 family member...
Michelle Campbell: Part 1. Telecom Trailblazer. Protecting the world.
August 20, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBMichelle provides a blueprint for how women can advance to the executive level in corporate America and survive a college engineering program by sharing the story of her rise to leadership in the telecommunications industry which has included addressing the United Nations on communications solutions during global catastrophes. Michelle talks about growing up in Detroit, Michigan and how her upbringing molded her for earning a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and a master’s in Project Man...
Joyce Mosley: single-parent adoption pioneer. Early Philadelphia prominence.
August 13, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBJoyce was first to adopt as a single-parent in Philadelphia, she complied a cohesive record of her complex family history tracing back to the 1600's and joined the Daughters of the American Revolution despite passing the grave of Marian Anderson when visiting family members, who played with Marian, buried in the same cemetery. She talks about being on the Board of Directors of the National Adoption Center; membership in the Colonial Daughters and Founding Families of PA, NY, NJ; her Revoluti...
Dymond Bush: sports librarian, 10th generation Rhode Islander. I belong here.
August 06, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBDymond discusses portraying Marian Anderson at 8 years old in a black history production and then reconciling DAR's history of exclusion to join the DAR as a millennial; being Miss Black Rhode Island USA 2016; connecting with her roots through gardening by planting crops for ancestors and how her cousin Dr. Booker T. Whatley invented the "U Pick Your Own" farming concept; her 5th great uncle Elisha L. Anthony Jr., a free person of color, who served in Louisiana as a Union Army private in the...
Nikki Williams Sebastian: Part 2. It's complicated.
July 30, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBIn continuation from part 1, Nikki talks about what happened after the O'Kelleys discovered that their family origin is not Irish but instead British; meeting white Mormon O'Kelley relatives who descended from the man who enslaved her ancestor; a member of her black family converting to Mormonism; witnessing a testimony given by a white cousin in front of Mormon church congregation sharing his family's slave owning history; the O'Kelley lineage connection to Revolutionary War ancestor Edward...
Nikki Williams Sebastian: Part 1. Uncovering and telling unknown stories.
July 23, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBNikki shares the story of her ancestor, thoroughbred racehorse trainer of Lecomte, Hark West, who in 1854 defeated Lexington in New Orleans; breaking the 1870 brick wall by finding ancestor Zachariah Harris who joined the Union Army as a United States Colored Troop (USCT) soldier at Camp Nelson, Kentucky and was awarded Jefferson Davis' property for his service but the land was taken back by the United States government; enriching the American narrative by sharing unknown stories; using DNA ...
Del Jupiter: 96 year-old. Flushing out award winning truths from family stories.
July 16, 2020 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBDel shares stories about having free rein of a millionaire's estate as a child in Pensacola, Florida and hunting for Spanish pirate's gold near the bayou; attending her beloved Spelman College; dispelling family lore that a slave ancestor was born in Spain by instead tracing her roots back to 1770 Spanish Louisiana; discovering her ancestor was Portuguese instead of Indian according to family tradition and translating his Spanish records; providing research which resulted in white and Filipi...
Allyson Morrison: scientist, knitter. Researching and keeping family secrets.
July 10, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBAllyson talks about her background as a scientist and how she knits patterns with binary numbers, tells how her Revolutionary War patriot was a slave owner, recounts her attempts to reach out to her white relatives who descended from the man who once owned her family members, and shares that she has kept her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution a secret from her family for 18 years...until now. Read Allyson's biography at www.daughterdialogues.com/daughters Subscribe to t...
Introducing Daughter Dialogues podcast
July 01, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBOn this Independence Day, meet the host, a black leader in the Daughters of the American Revolution and direct descendant of President Thomas Jefferson's grandfather. Learn how the podcast got started and what to expect to hear in future episodes from black and other DAR members of color who descend from men and women who fought for the independence of the United States of America. This topic is especially relevant during this time of a global conversation about black lives and our place in ...