2 events found.
Events for February 20, 2019
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Maitland and African American Experiences
J. André Smith, Churchgoers, Eatonville, oil on Masonite, ca. 1940, 35 ¼ x 29 ¼, Collection of Art & History Museums–Maitland, CM72.02.09 The Art & History Museums–Maitland opens two exhibitions highlighting resident African American experiences and the intertwined histories of Maitland and Eatonville: Maitland and African American Experiences Then & Now: J. André Smith and Jane…
History Lecture – Maitland’s African American History: Marked, Unmarked, Remembered
Dr. Scot French In the lecture, Dr. Scot French, guest curator of the Maitland History Museum's Spring 2019 exhibition, will discuss his efforts to document Maitland's African American History -- from the arrival of homesteaders and grove workers in the mid-1870s through the Jim Crow Era of exclusion, marginalization, and erasure to the desegregated civic and…