Jacqui Love-Thornell, 2022-08-26

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Afua Ferdnance interviews Jacqui Love-Thornell on August 26, 2022 at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Jacqui Love-Thornell was born on April 27, 1948 to parents Minnie Tisdale and Wyatt Love in Liberty City in Miami, Florida. She describes her family's roots in South Carolina, focusing on their Gullah Geechee heritage. Jacqui discusses her childhood, growing up in segregated Liberty City, visits to the public library, and moving to Newark, New Jersey during high school. She recalls attending college at Trenton State University and meeting her husband, Kwasi Thornell. Jacqui studied early childhood education with minors in math and psychology. She worked as a teacher, an administrative assistant, and in human resources positions. She discusses her occupations as a teacher and in human resources, and how she came to work for the Washington Post and the Miami Herald.

Jacqui describes her photography collection she donated to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs). She details how she collected the photographs of Black Americans, and the importance of representation of Black life in 19th and early 20th century photography.

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