Our Remarkable Journey

About the Book

This book is about our personal journeys in the United States from the enslavement period to the present. There are pages of mini biographies; historical tidbits; essays by family members; obituaries; memoirs; and photographs from 1920's to the present.

About the Author

Before her retirement in 1993, Esther Vincent Lloyd worked for thirty-seven years as an educational media specialist in Commonwealth of Virginia and the state of New Jersey. She earned her BA degree from North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 and her MA degree from Kean University in Union, New Jersey in 1982. At the age of fifteen, her first article was published in the Progressive Farmer Magazine. Later in her life she wrote three biographies which are published in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women, Scarecrow Press, 1990. In addition to researching her family’s history, she has had several of her black history articles published in local periodicals in New Jersey. As a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., Esther wrote book reviews for The Jersey Heritage: A Celebration of African American History and Genealogy. She has also participated in two special documentaries, A Question of Color, a documentary film that confronts “color consciousness” in the African American community; and Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South. This is a collection of memories of black people who grew up in the Jim Crow South from about the 1890s to the 1960s.