Even though they lived under Jim Crow, they thrived: A Community of Free People—The Winton TrianglePosted in History, Live Events, Media Archive, United States on 2014-01-29 16:44Z by Steven |
Even though they lived under Jim Crow, they thrived: A Community of Free People—The Winton Triangle
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, Southeast
Washington, D.C., 20020
202-633-4820
Saturday, 2014-02-01, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time)
Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director
Chowan Discovery Group
For over 260 years, the Winton Triangle’s mixed-race landowning community successfully navigated slavery, discrimination laws, the backlash from the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Civil War and Jim Crow. Winton Triangle native Marvin T. Jones explains in words, images and documents a very different history of the rural South.