The Freedmen Settlement of Good Hope, Hickory, Mississippi
by Joyce Salter Johnson
Sunday, October 8, 2017 at Arbor Covenant Church 12:00-2:00 Miss Joyce will be signing copies of her new book. We’re so proud of her and this important story!
Forward by Dorothy Hayden-Watkins, PhD
“The Freedmen who settled communities after Emancipation Proclamation were largely ignored in the “telling” of America’s history.
They were either omitted from historical documentation or portrayed in imagery that lacked depth or accuracy. Many early historians
did not see the relevance in the experiences of emancipated men and women. This book is a modest attempt to bring light to these events and pay the early settlers of Good Hope Freedmen Settlement in Newton County, Mississippi their due. The lives of the families of
Good Hope Freedmen Settlement will reveal novel information pertaining to the history of the settlement from its beginning to the
present.”