Wedding of Ernest and Peace Champion

DESCRIPTION
In this slideshow, you will see:
Maya Mccoy's maternal grandparents and their wedding party in Jaffna. In a text message to Maya, Maya's mother shared, "Ammammah and Papa were married on April 15, 1956. That was Easter Sunday because there are no weddings done during Lent. I don’t know the photographer’s name but the joke was that he took a lot of pictures but didn’t have film in the camera for a significant part of the weekend." Maya's family is brought up in her interview for the SAADA Archival Creators Fellowship Project on Ilankai Tamil Feminism. She discusses how her mother's brief stint in Sri Lanka before her family moved abroad helped to shape her worldview such that it left impressions on Maya's politics of solidarity. Maya has a similar experience with her grandfather, who was former faculty at Jaffna College, an institution that is regularly brought up as one of historical and social significance among other interviewees of this fellowship project. Maya's grandfather was also a Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University and author of the book Mr. Baldwin, I Presume that touches on his collaborator and friend James Baldwin (although Baldwin is not brought up in the interview).



ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: April 15, 1956
Subject(s): Maya McCoy
Type: Photograph
Source: Archival Creators Fellowship Program
Creator: Kartik Amarnath
Contributor: Maya McCoy
Location: Jaffna, Sri Lanka

PROVENANCE
Collection: Kartik Amarnath Fellowship project
Donor: Maya McCoy
Item History: 2022-07-08 (created); 2022-07-12 (modified)

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