Sunday, September 6, 2020

MELVINA SHIELDS

 


Image may contain: outdoor, text that says 'MELVINIA SHIELDS 1844~ 1938 THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED Το THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MELVINIA 'MATTIE" SHIELDS MCGRUDER. SHE WAS BORN A SLAVE IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1844. AT AGE SHE WAS BROUGHT TO HE NEARBY SHIELDS FARM IN WHAT IS NOW REX, CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA. HER FAMILY WOULD ENDURE FIVE-GENERATION JOURNEY THAT BEGAN IN OPPRESSION AND WOULD LEAD HER DESCENDANT το BECOME FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MICHELLE OBAMA'





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