Longevity: Historical Memory vs. Living Memory

My hat is tipped to the gentelady from Detroit. Conyer and Kilpatrick should do a resolution in Congress on her behalf. State Reps should as well and the Detrot City Council and refer to a her as a Human Institution.

Her Living Memory brings to an end a chapter of history where there are now no one living from the 19th Century who is an African American.

This moves history of African Americans, of the South, and of the nation during this period called the Gilded Age, into what historians call Historical Memory.


What a shame no one interviewed her thirty years ago before her memory started to fail to record an oral history of her experiential life. She was a baby When Mckinley was elected and Grover Cleveland was leaving office after 12 years in the White House. Grover Clevleand served at the end of the 1880s and much of the 1890s.