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A PAPER BRIDGE BOOK TALK

Where did they go? And when? And why?

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the introduction of Jim Crow laws throughout the south that targeted recently emancipated Blacks, a great migration began as hundreds of thousands of Blacks moved north seeking opportunity and prosperity.

One such family came from the Perkinsville community straddling, the Goochland/Louisa County line. “A Paper Bridge: Love Letters from the Great Migration” — a book based on the love letters between Herbert Gordon Cosby and his wife Jannie Ellis Cosby gives a compelling narrative of the challenges faced by one couple caught up in that mass movement.

Author Dr. Wanda Alderman, an urban sociologist in Washington DC has curated these letters and will speak to a joint meeting of the Goochland and Louisa County Historical Societies on Sunday, November 16 at 2 PM at St. Mark Baptist Church, 4596 Factory Mill Rd, Maidens.

Dr, Alderman is the great-great-granddaughter of William and Nancy Ellis of Goochland, the great granddaughter of Calvin and Virginia Ellis of Louisa, and the granddaughter of Herbert and Janie Cosby of the love letters.

A reception and book signing will follow Dr. Alderman’s talk. Please join us for an important and informative talk about this epochal change in America’s development.

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