2 Books Published by Kanika Marshall Art & Books on AALBC — Book Cover Collage
The Marshall Legacy in Black and White
by Kathy Lynne MarshallKanika Marshall Art & Books (Aug 31, 2021)
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Why do we have no color, Grandma?
In 1976, at age 19, Kathy’s Marshall’s innocent question began to untangle her family’s complicated racial history. Decades later, she researches her ancestors, first stitching bits of lore, then centering everything in facts gleaned from official historical documents. Inspired by the novel, Roots, she travels to Georgia and discovers ancestors, both Black and White, slaves and slave owners. Her determination to unearth their stories is matched by what she learns: William Blount Marshall, a politician and White slave owner was a blood ancestor. Austin Marshall, a Pullman porter, puts his son through medical school. Rev. Israel Smith’s congressional testimony helped force a voter recount in Alabama in 1870, confounding the Klu Klux Klan and others who didn’t want Blacks to vote. The black genealogy legacies of her ancestors prove to Kathy that resilience knows no color.
This book includes a guide to writing your family history.
Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land
by Kathy Lynne MarshallKanika Marshall Art & Books (Oct 24, 2019)
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Grandma Daisy lied to me about her birthplace, and I had to find out why. Using DNA testing, I found Grandma Daisy’s enslaved ancestors, and even toured the plantation where they toiled. Through family interviews, newspapers, and other documents, I learned how Grandma Daisy became an entrepreneur in the 1930s, which civic organizations she led, how she got her cooking gene, articles about her rich social life, and how she disciplined kids and husbands (oh my!). Poignant is the story of her ultimate battle. Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land is a story of triumph, pride, hard times, good fortune, laughs, fortitude, beastly anger, leadership, love, and truth.
"You captured every aspect of Miss Daisy’s life, and her legacy lives on through your wonderful book. I could not stop reading her story and cried when her journey ended." -Bernice Alexander Bennett, Genealogist, Speaker, Author of Tracing Their Steps: A Memoir.