As an offering for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, Chowan Discovery is hosting a tour of the African American Civil War Museum and the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. On the Memorial’s wall of 200, 000 names, each attendee will search for a Winton Triangle soldier after given a card with the name and a profile of the soldier. We will lunch afterwards at Washington’s most famous eatery, Ben’s Chili Bowl. Here is more information.
The CDG is hosting the academic panel, “Origins and growth of Mixed Race Groups from the South to Ohio” at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at the University of Maryland – College Park on March 3, 2017. Marvin T. Jones’ presentation, “A Mixed Race school, Pleasant Plains, 1866 – 1950” is based on his work in placing the Winton Triangle’s first schoolhouse on the National Register of Historic Places. Other participants of the panel are
Panel is moderator by author Margo Lee Williams. The panel’s time and location is 1pm, March 3 at Banneker B, University of Maryland Adele H. Stamp Student Union, 3972 Campus Drive, College Park, MD, 20742.
The conference runs from March 1-3; registration is required. Chowan Discovery is hosting an after-conference tour the following day.
Along with millions of people of color and abolitionists, Haiti inspired Douglass to fight for freedom in America. His lifelong relationship to Haiti provide culminated in his service as United States Minister to Haiti in 1889 to1891.
The Civil War is sometimes called the Second Haitian Revolution. Pro-slavers feared Haiti, the enslaved and abolitionists found great hope from Toussaint Louverture and Haiti. This lecture details the actions of enslaved and abolitionists who were encouraged by the Haitian Revolution, Haiti’s own involvement in offering freedom to people of color, and why Haiti was so important to keeping alive the hope that all Americans would be free. Thousands of African Americans, including the grandfather of W.E.B. Dubois, emigrated there. American leaders who wrote and spoke of their admiration for Louverture include John Brown, Martin Delaney, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Forten, William Lloyd Garrison, Prince Hall, John Mercer Langston, Wendell Phillips, Senator Charles Sumner, Denmark Vesey and David Walker.
The lecture builds upon two CDG offerings, HAITI’S FORTS OF FREEDOM and HAITI AND THE CIVIL WAR.
Marvin T. Jones’s first large documentary project was Haiti’s stupendous fortress, the Citadel Henry (or Citadel Laferriere). Recently, he returned to Haiti to reconnect with his work and friends there. It apt that this talk with many images follows the visit.
The Civil War is sometimes called the Second Haitian Revolution. Pro-slavers feared Haiti, the enslaved and abolitionists found great hope from Toussaint Louverture and Haiti. This lecture details the actions of enslaved and abolitionists who were encouraged by the Haitian Revolution, Haiti’s own involvement in offering freedom to people of color, and why Haiti was so important to keeping alive the hope that all Americans would be free. Thousands of African Americans, including the grandfather of W.E.B. Dubois, emigrated there. American leaders who wrote and spoke of their admiration for Louverture include John Brown, Martin Delaney, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Forten, William Lloyd Garrison, Prince Hall, John Mercer Langston, Wendell Phillips, Senator Charles Sumner, Denmark Vesey and David Walker.
Hosted by the Bethel Dukes Branch – ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History) at the DC Public Library – Woodridge Branch 1801 Hamlin St NE, Washington, DC 20018.
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III of Sirius-XM’s “Inside the Issues with Wilmer Leon” show will once again host Marvin T. Jones for a segment about the latest Chowan Discovery lecture, “An Army of Educators”.
During and after the Civil War, Union officers and missionaries expanded literacy and skills in the south, resulting in a great rise in the reading population and creating schools, some of which exist today. A school established in a Washington, D.C. army barracks in 1864 is still going strong. Fisk, Hampton, Howard and Shaw are among the universities that rose in the first five years after the war. Within ten years after the war, Howard University was graduating men and women with degrees in medicine and law. Although many schools were destroyed and teachers and students threatened, the growth of education for people of color continued. The Winton Triangle has its own story about a missionary teacher.
Marvin T. Jones will give a overview of the people and organizations who propagated education among people of color and how southern whites also greatly benefitted.
Tune in Saturday, December 9 at 11am on SiriusXM Channel 126.
The Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum is hosting the showing of THE CAMPAIGNS OF MOLLY HUNDLEY, one of the films produced by Chowan Discovery.
From 1921 to 1955, Mrs. Mary Gibson Hundley was an exacting teacher of French and Latin at the famous Dunbar High School in Washingon, D.C. The film’s title reflects Mrs. Hundley’s educational advancement against racism at her college; her drive to encourage students to excel in all ways, the students who were inspired by her; her legal battle against a racially-restricted covenant that evicted her from her home; and finally, Mrs. Hundley’s campaign to save the historic Dunbar High School building in the 1970’s.
Mrs. Hundley’s unyielding loyalty to her school and high educational standards led her to write a book, The Dunbar Story in 1965. She encouraged and directed many Dunbar students to attend the best possible colleges in the United States during the Jim Crow era. The Chowan Discovery Group presents a film about this extraordinary personality in education. THE CAMPAIGNS OF MOLLY HUNDLEY tells of her efforts to move students to excellent levels of education and mission, to broaden their choices of colleges during the Jim Crow era, and her own battles against mediocrity and racism. Producer Marvin T. Jones will introduce and discuss the film.
This is the second Dunbar High film produced by Chowan Discovery. Both films are funded by the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. and the Chowan Discovery Group. The screening is part of the D.C. Mondays at the Museum program series, a lunchtime event that is inspired by the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum.
