The MITCHELL Family Library

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Let’s Share and Learn.

This library is for materials by and about the descendants of Frances Mitchell.

If you’d like to add something, please send a message HERE.

Photo: Fun in learning, our visit to the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY, at the 2019 Reunion.

Highlights from Reunion 2021

Reunion Programs & Other Family Materials

2023 MITCHELL Family Reunion - About the Logo

2019 Reunion Program (Louisville, KY) (PDF)

2017 Reunion Program (Chicago, IL) (PDF)

2009 Reunion Program (San Francisco, CA) (PDF)

2007 Mitchel Family Reunion Close-Out Report (PDF)

1997 Reunion Program (Chicago, IL) (PDF)

1993 Reunion Program (Atlanta, GA) (PDF)

1987 Reunion Program (Chicagoland) (PDF)

A Written Portrait of the Mitchells by NG Mitchell, Jr. (PDF)

Descendants of Frances Mitchell – Updated 2019 (PDF)

Extended Family Chart for Frances Mitchell (PDF)

Books & Publications by Family Authors & Editors

JOHNSON Claude Johnson – The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era (Abrams Press, 2022)

JOHNSON Claude Johnson – “Manhattan Takes Brooklyn: NYC’s First Black Fives Matchup.” City/Game: Basketball in New York, edited by William C. Rhoden, pp 19-24 (Rizzoli Electa, 2020)

JOHNSON Claude Johnson – Black Fives: The Alpha Physical Culture Club's Pioneering African American Basketball Team, 1904-1923 (Volume 1)(Black Fives Publishing, 2012)

LOWE Candice Lowe (with I. Gopauloo, C. Le Chartier, D. Bablee) – Le Morne Cultural Landscape History, Symbolism and Tradition (Le Morne Heritage Trust Fund, Reduit, 2010)

LOWE SWIFT Candice Lowe Swift (with Richard R. Wilk) – Teaching Food and Culture (Routledge Press, 2015)

MITCHELL Gwendolyn A. Mitchell – House of Women (Third World Press, 2003)

MITCHELL-KERNAN Claudia Mitchell-Kernan (with M. Belinda Tucker) – The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications (Russell Sage Foundation, 1995)

News & Other Media

GIPSON Reluctant Draftee Ron Gipson Rose to Army Colonel with Service in Vietnam (KTBS News, 2021)

JOHNSON Charles Earl “Memusi” Johnson Obituary (Valley News, 2021)

MITCHELL Charles Dale Mitchell, Sr., MD, Obituary (Dallas Morning News, 2020)

MITCHELL Gwendolyn Mitchell, Oral History Interviews (TheHistoryMakers.org, 2003-2004)

Pictured here is the Mitchell Family Quilt made by Shirley L. Gipson, wife of Charles F. Gipson. It resides with Cynthia and Charles D. Mitchell, who acquired it via auction at the 2017 Reunion. 

Pictured here is the Mitchell Family Quilt made by Shirley L. Gipson, wife of Charles F. Gipson. It resides with Cynthia and Charles D. Mitchell, who acquired it via auction at the 2017 Reunion. 

Reunion Tribute to Charles E. Johnson (2021)

Nelson G. Mitchell, Jr., KITV Interview (Hawaii, 2016)