European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lena Home anther family Black bourgeoisie by Nadine Hozan new York times everal years ago. Lena Home asked her daughter Gail Lumel Buckley to store in her basemen an old family trunk Hal had belonged to Home s father. And Whilo she was Al in Home said you might Lake a look in in there Are a lot of interesting things in there " indeed there were. Buckley recalled during a Oil interview with Homo. Crammed into he trunk were hundreds of objects and mementos of Home s forebears reaching Beck sin generations to ancestor Sinai Reynolds who was bom into slavery m 1777 and who bought her Freedom by Selling pies. There were photographs Bills notes letters including one from Benjamin Harrison speakeasy tickets gambling receipts College  what the trunk also contained was the fragmented Structure of a Book when Buckley pieced together the Memorabilia. After interviewing relatives and scouring reference material on Black history she wrote the hones an american family which has just been published. Ii traces the Saga from Post revolutionary War Days through the civil War and reconstruction into the 20th Century of one Stalwart Black family. But the Book also As Buckley put it. Sheds Light on America s historic family secret he Story of Black life that has never been told that of the typical Black Middle class family the Black  my ancestors were typical of the Black Middle class because they Wera super she said. To be equal or even to gel a foot in the door it was necessary to be smarter faster and brighter than whiles and other  there were Many such Black families she continued quietly achieving As doctors lawyers jurists architects but he quiet truth does t make headlines. We were like the rest except for my Mother who has made this happen Buckley said. Writing the Book she said Mode a feel two things i have never be