Black and White: Granddaughter of slaves grew up straddling a racial divide in Coronado
It came in early 1981. A historical association in San Diego was planning an exhibit for Black History Month. They were looking for photos of local Black pioneers. Did Hudgins have any pictures of her ancestors?That was a lie the 60-year-old woman had been telling herself for most of her life. Now she was afraid it would be exposed and she would again face the kind of mistreatment she had suffered as a child growing up in Coronado in the 1920s and 1930s.Thank you for your support.
She tried to get someone interested in publishing the memoir, but when she died in 2015, at age 94, it had been more than 20 years since she’d finished it. She doubted the public would ever get a chance to read it.Kevin Ashley describes himself as a lay historian. He has a particular interest in Black ties to Coronado.
Ashley’s research showed that Amos and Annie had a son, Algernon, and that he had a daughter, Cynthia. Digging some more, Ashley found a story in the San Diego Reader from 2001. It featured Cynthia Hudgins talking about her childhood straddling the racial divide in Coronado and wrestling with the question that had long haunted her: Who am I?
When the memoir was handed down to her a decade ago, Fishback wanted to digitize it and create a keepsake for the family, maybe as a Christmas gift. The memoir details a bewildering childhood for Hudgins. How her parents, Algernon and May, left her to be raised into her early teens by her grandmother Annie, even though they lived nearby. They had other priorities. After Annie died, they took their daughter in, but a distance remained.“Did Grandma think Papa told me?” Hudgins wrote.
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