We are delighted to introduce our newest trustee, Linda Crichlow White!
Linda is a native Washingtonian and retired School Librarian and currently serves as president of the James Dent Walker Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. Having had the responsibility of cleaning out the homes of several elder family members and discovering photos, diaries, letters, and other historical documents, Linda believes that family history is key to understanding our collective history. As Henry Louis Gates states, as we do our family trees, we add specificity to the raw data from which historians can generalize.
Linda has been volunteering at the National Museum of African American History and Culture since it opened, working primarily in the Family History Center there. She is the author, with her mother, of Back There Then, a Historical and Genealogical Memoir.
Welcome to the DC History Center!