Fall Lecture: Marvin Tupper Jones, Haiti and the Civil War

Marvin Tupper Jones, Haiti and the Civil War
September 27
1:30 PM
In-Person at OLLI

Marvin Tupper Jones is a documentary photographer whose one-person shows have appeared at the Organization of American States, Howard University, California African American Museum, and the Roanoke-Chowan Community College.

Jones’ decades-long career expanded to other forms of documentary media through the founding of the Chowan Discovery Group (www.chowandiscovery.org). CDG documents, preserves, and presents the 400-plus year-old history of the land-owning tri-racial people of color of the Winton Triangle, an area of Hertford County, North Carolina. Jones is a native of Cofield, a village in the Winton Triangle.

CDG’s Winton Triangle digital collection now has over 90,000 photographs, documents, maps, and recordings. Jones’s Chowan Discovery work has yielded awards of excellence from the North Carolina Society of Historians, the African American Historical and Genealogical Society, the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage, and the Society of the First African Families of English America

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. In-person lectures will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor. Registration for the above lecture will open here at 10:00 AM on the Friday prior to the lecture. The direct registration link will also be included in the Friday newsletter the week prior. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve up to two seats. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.