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The Barber’s Diaries is the story of Charles Everett Ellis, who was a barber in Altamont, a small Illinois town [...]

Sisters Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh (left and Adrienne Ellis Reeves stand on the spot where their family home once stood in [...]

Among the wonderful group of people in central Illinois who have provided invaluable research assistance in production of The Barber's [...]

By Jingo! That’s what Charles Everett Ellis might have said about Sunday’s visit of several descendants to his old home [...]

Many mistakes have been made which are daily exacting their certain toll and are holding back my onward progress but [...]

"Black barber in Altamont focus of documentary," writes journalist Bill Grimes for the Effingham Daily News. His story continues [...]

This is the story of an invisible man who lived at a time of invisible people. Charles Everett Ellis was [...]

In a time before any thought of the Civil Rights Movement, when race riots erupted across the Midwest, many blacks [...]

Here is a collection photos of the Ellis family in Altamont, Illinois, in the pre-Great Depression era, and today. We [...]

The Barber’s Diaries is the true story of one black man’s journey in America, from the 1920s through the 1970s. [...]

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