Oral family tradition preserved Black genealogy against archival erasure.

Evidence

My Grandma had a special chair, Where she would sit and recount our history. We would gather at her knee and listen, As she told of things that used to be. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 16

Categorization

• XREF: The oral archive against the paper archive — connects to the archival-design obstructive theme the reader flagged as central.