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The characters

Everyone on the Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois family tree

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APAiley Pearl GarfieldThe heroineNovel textBelle and Geoff’s youngest.

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LLydiaEldest sisterNovel textBelle’s first daughter.

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CCarolMiddle sisterNovel textCarol Rose in NPR.

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BBelleAiley’s motherNovel textBorn Maybelle Lee.

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GGGeoff GarfieldAiley’s fatherReviewsA physician.

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ZZacharyGandeeCommunity onlyGeoff’s father.

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CClaireNanaCommunity onlyGeoff’s mother.

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MRMiss RoseGrandmotherNovel textHuck’s twin.

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HDHosea DriskellGrandfatherNovel textMiss Rose’s husband.

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UHUncle HuckHenry Jr.Novel textMiss Rose’s twin.

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AMAnnie MaePearl’s daughterNovel textPauline’s mother.

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APAunt PaulineAnnie Mae’s daughterNovel textLeft in Chicasetta.

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DPDear PearlGreat-grandmotherNovel textLil’ May’s daughter.

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HCHenry CollinsPearl’s husbandNovel textFather of the twins.

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URUncle RootPearl’s brotherNovel textBorn Jason.

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LMLil’ MayMaybellineNovel textSheba’s last child.

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SShebaMeema’s daughterNovel textMother of six.

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ETEliza TwoMeemaNovel textRabbit’s twin.

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RBRed BenjaminMeema’s husbandNovel textTook her last name.

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RRabbitEliza Two’s twinReviewScrawny at birth.

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NNickFather of the twinsCommunity onlySamuel’s son.

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TTessMother of the twinsCommunity onlyNick’s wife.

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SPSamuel PinchardPlantation ownerReviewEliza Two’s grandfather.

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MMamieEnslaved womanCommunity onlyNick’s mother.

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LLadySamuel’s wifeCommunity onlyMicco’s daughter.

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VVictorSamuel’s sonCommunity onlyLady’s son.

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GEGloria or EugeniaSamuel’s daughterCommunity onlyTwo names in two sources.

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MMiccoSon of NilaReviewFirst of Ailey’s line.

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MMahalaMicco’s wifeCommunity onlyLady’s mother.

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NNilaCreek womanReviewMicco’s mother.

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DCDylan CornellScottish traderReviewMicco’s father.

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  • APAGenogram Builder. (2026, November 11). The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois family tree PDF, from Micco to Ailey. https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/love-songs-of-web-du-bois-family-tree
  • MLA“The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Family Tree PDF, from Micco to Ailey.” Genogram Builder, 11 Nov. 2026, https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/love-songs-of-web-du-bois-family-tree.
  • ChicagoGenogram Builder. “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Family Tree PDF, from Micco to Ailey.” Last modified November 11, 2026. https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/love-songs-of-web-du-bois-family-tree.
  • HarvardGenogram Builder (2026) The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Family Tree PDF, from Micco to Ailey. Available at: https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/love-songs-of-web-du-bois-family-tree (Accessed: 11 November 2026).

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Sources and credits

The novel is under copyright, so this page shows no cover or pictures, and the chart is our own drawing, not a copy of the lists in the book. The text of the novel comes from published excerpts. Study guides, a blog review, Wikipedia and a user-drawn chart on Wikimedia Commons are used only where nothing firmer was found, and each such line is marked community source only. Each fact was checked on 11 November 2026.

BingeBooks

  1. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, with an excerpt of the prologue

Literary Hub

  1. An excerpt reprinted courtesy of Harper

Reading Group Choices

  1. Excerpt and discussion questions

NetGalley

  1. Harper Audio listing with the publisher’s description

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  1. Family Trees

Electric Literature

  1. Interview with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Donna Hemans, 24 August 2021

PLOS, DNA Science

  1. Review, Ricki Lewis, 18 May 2023

Kirkus Reviews

  1. Review, 15 May 2021 issue

Publishers Weekly

  1. Review, 5 April 2021

NPR

  1. Review, Denny S. Bryce, 28 August 2021

Los Angeles Review of Books

  1. The question is my breath, Chris Via, 23 November 2021

Associated Press, via News4Jax

  1. Book critics award, Hillel Italie, 17 March 2022

BookRags, community source

  1. Study guide summary

GradeSaver, community source

  1. Character list

The Torogi Chronicles, blog, community source

  1. Book review 495, 14 March 2024

Wikimedia Commons, community source

  1. User-drawn family tree by Carpiediem

Wikipedia, community source

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