Image sources: 

Archival family photos of Ashley’s motherline (c. 1930’s to 1980’s) 

Etta Anderson, Ocilla, Georgia collected by Beverly J. Robinson for the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project  (1977)

Jessie Lee Smith, Tifton, Georgia collected by Beverly J. Robinson for the South-Central Georgia Folklife Project (1977)

Still from Bush Mama, directed by Haile Gerima (1979)

Still from Daughters of the Dust, directed by Julie Dash (1991)