Preserving a Family Legacy
Charity's Children Project
Twelve generations of African and Cherokee heritage rooted in Dayton, Ohio's Miami Valley since 1803.
Charity's Children Project, Inc. is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
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A living vessel of memory and cultural justice
Charity's Children Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and sharing African American history through archival preservation, storytelling, exhibitions, educational programming, and community engagement. Together with The Legacy of Charity's Children, LLC (TLCC), it stewards the extraordinary lineage of early Ohio settlers John Isaac Davis and his daughter Charity Davis Caesar Broady, of African and Cherokee descent. Since 1803 and 1804, twelve generations and counting have shaped the Miami Valley of Dayton, Ohio.
Charity Davis Caesar Broady stands among Dayton's most significant historical figures. An abolitionist, suffragist, and co-founder of the First Wesleyan Church, her leadership helped establish a major Underground Railroad site later recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of the “1,000 Places Where Women Made History.”
This work is spearheaded by Patricia Smith Griffin, broadcaster, historian, genealogist, and fourth great granddaughter of Charity Davis Caesar Broady, whose lifelong stewardship, scholarship, and storytelling transform a 220-plus year family archive into living history for the public good.
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Behind every photograph is a story, and we are happy to share the lives of our individual family members — with more added every month.
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