Marvin Tupper Jones
Feb 1, 2022
Juneteenth Talks, Civil Rights Trails Marker, Lectures, Interviews, and an Award
Photo: Diary page from a new lecture, “The Life and Diaries of Annie Walden Jones”
January 10: Interviewed by Rupen Fofaria for Ed NC.com: https://www.ednc.org/winton-triangle-cofield-ahoskie-nc-chowan-school-black-farm-entrepreneur-csbrown-hertford-history/?fbclid=IwAR0ytNgOs3VVnegSd_fkl8LnB-6bJmfHeSaISJyZEJyrTfS0uwVa1nDaVSs
January 16: “Families of USCTs of the Winton Triangle”, virtual lecture for the AAHGS-Piedmont
Chapter January 16
February 17: Katie M. Hart virtual discussion at the Museum of the Albemarle, Elizabeth City NC
February: Three newspapers articles resulted from this Katie Hart talk: the Bertie Advance, Elizabeth City’s Daily Advance, Roanoke-Chowan News Herald
February 25: Interview with Cheryl Deloatch, Roanoke-Chowan News Herald about North Carolina Highway Historical Markers; the Choanoac and Robert Lee Vann markers were featured in Crossroads… February 2021
March 3: Announcement of Chowan Discovery’s new marker for New Ahoskie Baptist Church
March 15: Interview with Kip Tabb for Outer Banks Voices about the New Ahoskie Church North Carolina Civil Rights Trails Marker, March 20; https://coastalreview.org/2021/04/marker-to-note-ahoskies-civil-rights-legacy/
March 26: Tour of Winton Triangle for UNC-Chapel Hill students majoring in public policy, March 26
March 28: C.S. Brown School’s Roots” speech, Founders’ Day at C.S. Brown Cultural Arts Center and Museum
April: Pleasant Plains Schoolhouse featured in the book and exhibit “A Better Place for Our Children”, also featured in Smithsonian Magazine, April 2021 issue.
May 20: Received the Crispus Attucks Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage. https://sdusmp.org/conference2021/?page_id=1070 and https://sdusmp.org/conference2021/?page_id=172
June 19: Speech read about Hertford County’s soldiers of the 36th Infantry Regiment of the United State Colored Troops at a Juneteenth program in Murfreesboro NC, June 19.
June 19: interview by Dr. Wilmer Leon, “On with the Issues, Sirius XM, replayed July 3.
June 19: “From North Carolina to Texas and Back - The Winton Triangle's Families of USCTs”, virtual lecture for the Dallas Genealogical Society's African-American Genealogy Interest Group
July 5: Kip Tabb article July 5 https://coastalreview.org/2021/07/marvin-jones-winton-triangle-research-a-personal-journey/
August 28: Dedication and unveiling of the first North Carolina Civil Rights Trails Marker, for New Ahoskie Baptist Church, Ahoskie. Followed by panel discussion moderated by Marvin Tupper Jones.
October 14 -15: Delivered three lectures at the annual Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society national conference:
- “The Life and Diaries of Annie Walden Jones”
- “The Indomitable Parker David Robbins”
- “Historical Markers of North Carolina and Virginia”
September: Submitted a 2500-word biography about educator and librarian, Katie M. Hart, to the Black Women Librarians Project as part of the Library History Roundtable
October 20: The “Winton Triangle” lecture presented to the Ahoskie Women’s Club, Ahoskie, NC.
October 30: Dedication and unveiling of the Wild’s Raid North Carolina Highway Historical Marker in Elizabeth City, NC