Out of the Past

Francis Ingram (1874-1954)'s handwritten account of Dinnie Thompson (1857-1939). Both women lived in Louisville, Kentucky, and met each other through the Neighborhood House. Dinnie Thompson was a Black laundress, maid, and formerly enslaved person. The account provides snippets of Dinnie's and her family's lives as enslaved people and as freed people after emancipation. Frances MacGregor Ingram was a white social worker and the Head Resident of the Neighborhood House settlement from 1905 to 1939.