So, Eric, how did this project come about? Well,

it came about from a couple of ways.

I had some association with the cemetery.

For a few consecutive Februaries, I would give a Black History Trolley tour.

And I was sort of a friend of the cemetery for, you know, having to do with people who I was specifically researching and writing about.

But this project, as I understand it, as I'm flattered to understand it, was when, at the time, Susan Olson, who's just retired, she and Executive Director Meg Ventrudeau of the Woodlawn Conservancy uh said that my book and a lilia bundles uh book uh biographies of um james h williams the chief of the red caps at grand central terminal for almost half a century that was my book boss of the grips and a lilia's book um on her own ground which was a biography of her great great i think there's a third great grandmother madam cj walker uh and then more recently her biography of her great blue raids uh you do the math grandmother, A'Lelia Walker, her namesake, came out.

But that hadn't been out yet.

So I'll go to those

So, Eric, how did this project come about? Well,

it came about from a couple of ways.

I had some association with the cemetery.

For a few consecutive Februaries, I would give a Black History Trolley tour.

And I was sort of a friend of the cemetery for, you know, having to do with people who I was specifically researching and writing about.

But this project, as I understand it, as I'm flattered to understand it, was when, at the time, Susan Olson, who's just retired, she and Executive Director Meg Ventrudeau of the Woodlawn Conservancy uh said that my book and a lilia bundles uh book uh biographies of um james h williams the chief of the red caps at grand central terminal for almost half a century that was my book boss of the grips and a lilia's book um on her own ground which was a biography of her great great i think there's a third great grandmother madam cj walker uh and then more recently her biography of her great blue raids uh you do the math grandmother, A'Lelia Walker, her namesake, came out.

But that hadn't been out yet.

So I'll go to those

So, Eric, how did this project come about? Well,

it came about from a couple of ways.

I had some association with the cemetery.

For a few consecutive Februaries, I would give a Black History Trolley tour.

And I was sort of a friend of the cemetery for, you know, having to do with people who I was specifically researching and writing about.

But this project, as I understand it, as I'm flattered to understand it, was when, at the time, Susan Olson, who's just retired, she and Executive Director Meg Ventrudeau of the Woodlawn Conservancy uh said that my book and a lilia bundles uh book uh biographies of um james h williams the chief of the red caps at grand central terminal for almost half a century that was my book boss of the grips and a lilia's book um on her own ground which was a biography of her great great i think there's a third great grandmother madam cj walker uh and then more recently her biography of her great blue raids uh you do the math grandmother, A'Lelia Walker, her namesake, came out.

But that hadn't been out yet.

So I'll go to those