Historical archives are a gatekeeper for truth and historical reflection. Black women face particular challenges in regard to archives as their stories are not recorded. This absence leaves a deep, yet loud, silence for Black feminist theorists to grapple with. This study was borne from these silences of the archives which expose the frustrating politics of history that tend to oppress and then ignore the “other.” My study aims to bring sound to the silence of the archives, and to add to the records, by starting with personal recollection on the lives of my grandmothers, two Caribbean women who were born in Haiti in the 1930s. Neither were educated sufficiently to be able to write, both were too poor to leave any relics, and neither have recorded any traces of their rich and complicated lives. Thus the archives would have ignored them, but I bring them to the center of my project to represent what has been missed in the history: a thorough evaluation of lived experiences by considering the structures of oppression that aims to devalue their lives. Through formal interviews, the researcher records their lives as a way to add to the archives, and to challenge its politics and the way we think of its value. The analysis suggests that we need to do more in understanding history. Black feminists have found creative ways to challenge the archives and tell their stories, and my work follows in this tradition.