S.1 Ep. 1: Family Secret: Show Notes

Welcome to the Fade to White Podcast. I’m your host, Jill Sim, and it is my honor to take you on a personal journey of discovery into my family history; a labor of love that has taken me 30 years to complete; a story of a family who went from black to white, and from enslavement to freedom. 

I was raised white, but discovered after my grandmother Ellen died, that her mother, Anita Hemmings, was the first Black American graduate of elite women’s college Vassar, though she passed for white during her four years there. I will be sharing Anita’s story, and later will be investigating our family’s complex ties to the famous Hemmings family enslaved to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, who died 200 years to the day, today. 

Wishing you peace on the 250th birthday of the American Experiment, into freedom, equality, and democracy. 

And thanks so much for listening!

Music Notes:

Original Music by Al Sim:

"Mystery 3"

"Mystery 1"

"Cold Case Blues"

"March of the War Gods"

"No One I Know" (Instr.)

"Surveillant"

"1970s New York Percussion Break"

Fair Use:

Sample: Tommy Edwards, "It's All in the Game," 1958.

Saint Saens, Le Cygne, from Carnivaux des Animaux, 1886.

Max Bruch, Scottish Fantasy, Op.46, 1880.

Other Incidental Music, Courtesy Pixabay Free to Use Music:

"Sad Background Music" - Sound Gallery by Dimitri Taras

"Blue Ridge Mountain" - Acousticeeg

"Up With the Sun" - Primal House Music