Betty Mae Peters
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Harlem to New York: Zara Cully Brown – A Letter to my Mom
Zara Cully Brown, [my great-aunt] was a boarder in the same New York Apartment with her sister Agnes Cully Peters, for a number of years between 1935-1940’s. My mother was quite young at…
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What Happens to A Dream Deferred?
When I think about the process of writing my mother’s memoirs of Sugar Hill, my mind reflects on Langston Hughes and one of his famous poems, “A Dream Deferred”. What Happens to A…
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Welcome to “A Taste of Sugar Hill”
I have always been intrigued by the life of my late mother Betty Mae Peters. She divided her life in three distinct phases by the places she lived. The first phase of her…