Passing: Show Notes

Dr. Andrew Jackson Love (1861-1948) and Anita Hemmings Love (1872-1960), c. 1938.

Attributions

Udry, Janice May. Mary Jo’s Grandmother (Albert Whitman & Company, 1970).  

Figure of 10-12,000 people passing annually, and those who did not have color privilege and their focus “upon the immediate task of survival” from: Williamson, Joel. New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. (New York: New York University Press, 1984), p. 103 and fn 82.

Baker, Ray Stannard. Following the Color Line (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908).  

My introduction to Stannard Baker’s book was from an excerpt in The American Magazine, digitized and available online during the 1990s. The E-book version was released in 2011, and is available through Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34847/34847-h/34847-h.htm. Last accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

Mary Church Terrell, "daughter of a Memphis millionaire” in Schneider, Mark R. Boston Confronts Jim Crow (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997), p. 96.

Entry: “Mrs. Anita Hemmings Love, 631 Chestnut Street, Chattanooga, Tenn.” Mary Church Terrell Papers: Appointment Calendars and Address Books, 1904-1954. Mary Church Terrell Papers Collection. Library of Congress.

And thanks to my half-sister Dr. Nicole Viglini, who sent me a copy of Terrell’s remembrance of passing. Mary Church Terrell Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Box 3, Folder 128.

Death record for Maud Cuney daughter. Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1872-1922. And: Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Deaths Index, 1878-1922. Ancestry.com.

Images

Portrait of Dr. Andrew Jackson Love and Anita Hemmings Love. Personal Collection of Jill Sim. All rights reserved. Please do not reproduce, duplicate, or screenshot without permission.

Music

Original Music by Al Sim:

“Closing Piano One”
“Cold Case Blues: Part I”
“Mystery Three: Harp and Bass V1”

Courtesy MusOpen:

Franz Schubert: “Piano Trio No. 2, Op.100, D. 929, in E Flat Major 2nd Movement”
Erik Satie: “Gnossienne No. 4”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “Swan Lake Op 20. Act II: Danse des Petits Cygnes”
Claude Debussy:  “Clair de Lune”

Courtesy Pixabay:

Leberch: “Documentary Piano”
Music for Creators: “Burning Sunset”