Daily News | Writer wants to ensure his late aunt’s stories about Black resilience and joy will live on
Zachary Hocker was curious about the tall, fair-haired, pale-blue-eyed gentleman he noticed in an old family photo.
“Aunt Annette passed down to me, in intricate detail, the family stories she had been told as a child,” Hocker said. “She kept their names alive. She kept their stories alive.” “I remember Annette saying that Tom would just tell the police, ‘We paid our fare,’” Hocker said. “Despite the hatred he faced for identifying as an African American and marrying a Black woman, Uncle Tom never allowed society to determine who he chose to love.”
Bradley traced the family’s maternal line even further back, to an enslaved 12-year-old girl in the late 1700s or early 1800s. She wrote: The stories attest to the ugly realities of the Jim Crow South: Tom was born as the result of the rape of Hocker’s great-great grandmother, Ida, by a white man.
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