Yvette LaGonterie Family Home Movie #1
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
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content: Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection
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content: Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection / Yvette LaGonterie Family Home Movies
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: Archival materials
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content: The wedding ceremony of Marcella Marie Goode to Donald Edwin LaGonterie at the St. Augustine's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York on May 29, 1949.  The opening slide shows the bride, Marcella, escorted by her father, Joseph Foster Goode.  The maid of honor to the bride's left is her first cousin, Juanita Marie Fowler, nee Skeete.  The ring bearer is Juanita's son, Richard Mark Fowler III.  The Reverend officiating the wedding was the rector, Reverend Charles England.  

NOTE: Marcella Goode LaGonterie was the fourth generation of her (maternal) family to belong to St. Augustine's P.E. Church. The church was founded in Brooklyn 1875 for a "colored" Episcopal congregation.  This film is particularly important because the church shown in this recording was destroyed by fire in 1969 along with all of the church's records.