Helen Reid with Chanelle, daughter of Warner Reid, Jr. (Brother), and one of Helen's teddy bear creations, 1980.
My maternal grandfather, Frank Herman Blevins (1891-1963) often sat in the living room with me while I practiced piano.
Mabel Tate Blevins (1891-1977), my maternal grandmother, sitting on her porch in front of the window of the bedroom where I was born.
My freshman year at Spelman College, September, 1951. It was the beginning of new horizons in my life.
My husband, Aldus S. Mitchell. This photo was taken for his graduation from the University of Chicago Law School in 1958. He was one of 86 graduates and the only colored man in the class.
I made this sequined studded dress for my Junior Prom at Spelman in 1954 and also wore it to the Coast Guard Academy Spring Ball in 1956
Erin, age 6. I loved being dressed up in my favorite dress. It was made of white sheer cotton with red dots and red rick-rack. The large red bow and red sandals completed the outfit.
Erin's 9th Grade Monitor School Spring Recital. Salem Baptist Church, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
My brother, Stanley, Jr. (Sonny), age 12, and me, age 9, during the year we spent with our grandparents in Selma, Alabama.
My little sister, Alice Rose Goseer, age 6, 1950. I often took her for rides in a towel-lined basket on the front of my bicycle.
Monitor School, Fitzgerald Georgia, 1947. It was one of over 5300 schools built with the aid of Rosenwald funds, 242 of which were in Georgia. Monitor had three buildings. Two were the typical seven room Rosenwald plan. In the foreground is the upper g
Monitor School, Fitzgerald, Georgia, 8th Grade Class. I am in the first row, second from the right.
Erin Goseer Mitchell, today.
My paternal grandmother, Alice Glasher Goseer (1869-1921).
Stanley L. Goseer, Sr., Principal Monitor High School, Fitzgerald, Georgia. "At recess, students often came to Daddy for a hug or an opportunity to ring his brass bell."
My father, Stanley L. Goseer, Sr. (1906-1969)
My paternal grandfather, John Goseer (1863-1925).
My mother, Mabel, Alieze Blevins Goseer.
Sonny, age 15, and Erin, age 12 at their home on the corner of East Jesssamine and South Logan Streets, Fitzgerald, Georgian, in 1947. My parents bought this house in 1936 and my mother still lives there.
My sixth grade teacher gave me this sheer pink blouse as a back to school gift in 1954.
A month after my graduation from Spelman in 1955, my family gathered on our lawn in Fitzgerald. I'm wearing a blue linen suit that I made for my first job interview.
My maternal grandparents, Frank H. Blevins (1891-1963 and Mabel Blevins (1891-1977) on the porch of their home, all dressed up for church.
