Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Three years after the release of “Lost Boundaries,” Dr. [Albert] Johnston was fired from his job as a radiologist at Keene Community Hospital. The president of the hospital board told reporters “racial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal,” but the doctor believed otherwise. “They have been picking on me ever since my story came out,” he told the press. “In spite of all that I have accomplished as a white man, I have, more or less, an empty life.” The Johnston family abandoned New Hampshire in 1966 and moved permanently to Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Johnston died in 1988 and Thyra Johnston in 1995. One of Albert Jr.’s original songs had been used in “Lost Boundaries,” and he became a successful composer.

J. Dennis Robinson, “Lost Boundaries: How a UNH student inspired one of America’s first “race films” and why we’re still talking about it,” New Hampshire Magazine, April 12, 2022. https://www.nhmagazine.com/lost-boundaries/.

New CDG-produced Video tells the history of the Winton Triangle’s Greatest Institution

Posted in Articles, History, Media Archive, United States on 2023-10-17 20:28Z by Steven

New CDG-produced Video tells the history of the Winton Triangle’s Greatest Institution

Chowan Discovery Group
2023-10-15

Marvin Tupper Jones

C.S. Brown School and Auditorium’s story

C.S. Brown Auditorium needs restoration work and a new video production has come to its aid. We hope this effort will help raise the resources needed for the restoration. Please donate.

Titled, “The C.S. Brown Auditorium Story” is a documentary video about C.S. Brown Auditorium in Winton, NC, one of the largest Rosenwald Schools. It can be viewed online and was funded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Chowan Discovery Group…

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BUILDING A MIXED RACE COMMUNITY: The People, Building and Sites of the Winton Triangle

Posted in Articles, Forthcoming Media, History, United States on 2023-03-13 02:10Z by Steven

BUILDING A MIXED RACE COMMUNITY: The People, Building and Sites of the Winton Triangle

Chowan Discovery Group
2023-03-06

Marvin Tupper Jones

*The exhibit tells of Civil War escapes on the Chowan River in Tunis, NC.*

The history covered in this exhibit spans from 1851 to 1973 and takes the viewer from the antebellum time through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the modern Civil Rights eras. It tells stories about over 30 people along with photographs and text. Four women are featured, as well as business people, farmers, carpenters, educators, church leaders, soldiers (Civil War and WWII), Civil Rights activists and organizations. One building included among the thirty 20”x30” panels is the exhibit’s first venue, the C.S. Brown Auditorium in Winton, NC…

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New CDG-produced Video tells the history of the Winton Triangle’s Greatest Institution

BUILDING A MIXED RACE COMMUNITY: The People, Building and Sites of the Winton Triangle

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