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This 1986 photograph shows, from left to right, Nellie Martin Shipp and her two sons Grantland Shipp and John Shipp, Jr., during a family reunion. Nellie Shipp is the daughter of Archie and Nancy Shipp, one of the first African-American families of Ames. For information about the Martin and Shipp families, see articles in the Winter 1990-91 and Spring 1991 issues of "The Ames Intelligencer" (newsletter of the Ames Heritage Association).