My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War BOTY_2025 To the rest of the

To the rest of the world

and that’s all that’s ever mattered to her

and street kids

as this photographic retrospective demonstrates

My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War BOTY_2025 To the rest of theArmed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfathers old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Fathers Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir, uncovering the mixture of anguish and fulfillment that accompanies a venture into the ancestral past,