Shay Banks-Young
Shay Banks-Young was a radio and TV personality and poet in Columbus, Ohio. After genetic testing in 1998 established a connection between Madison Hemings’s brother Eston and Thomas Jefferson, she went on the Oprah Winfrey show and met Eston’s descendant Julia Jefferson Westerinen. Following that encounter, Banks-Young and Westerinen brought a discussion of racial issues, titled “A Conversation in Black and White,” to audiences around the country.
Elizabeth Hemings
1735-1807Sally Hemings
1773-1835Madison Hemings
1805-1877Harriet Hemings Butler
1842–1925Shay Banks-Young
1944-2016

Shay Banks-Young

Shay Banks-Young at Monticello

Shay Banks-Young's mother, Frances Hill Harris

Shay Banks-Young's son, W. Douglas Banks II
Dates Alive:
1944-2016
Family:
Hemings,Hemings-Sally
Location (at interview):
Columbus, OH
Interview Details:
31 May 1996, Columbus, OH
Interviewee: Shay Banks-Young
Interviewer: Beverly Gray
19 July 2000, Charlottesville, VA
Interviewees: Shay Banks-Young, Julia Jefferson Westerinen
Related People
- Madison Hemings - Ancestor
- Julia Jefferson Westerinen - Cousin






