{"id":39053,"date":"2014-12-23T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39053"},"modified":"2014-12-23T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T14:57:16","slug":"chowan-discovery-group-marvin-t-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39053","title":{"rendered":"Chowan Discovery Group, Marvin T. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chowan Discovery Group, Marvin T. Jones<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Backintyme.biz<\/a>
\nBlog Talk Radio<\/a>
\n2014-12-20<\/p>\n

Stacey Webb<\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

Marvin T. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director
\nChowan Discovery Group<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Author & Historian Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director & owner of Marvin T. Jones and Associates, specializing in corporate communications photography and photographic design. His love of the community of his birth led him to create the now defunct Rowan-Chowan.com website, a personal website of stories and photo essays. jones is a native of Cofield, North Carolina<\/a>. He attended the Winton Triangle’s C.S. Brown School and graduated from Ahoskie High School.<\/p>\n

Marvin also wrote a chapter in Carolina Genesis, Beyond The Color Line<\/em><\/a> and presents the first history of the Winton Triangle. Marvin’s essay “The Leading Edge of Edges-The Tri-Racial People of the Winton Triangle”, tells the story of a people who emerge from the meeting of the New and Old Worlds and how they created success from century to century in northeastern North Carolina<\/a>. Highlights of the essay include: Origins of the Winton Triangle and the Triangle’s contribution to the Civil War in expanding freedom in the United States, Founding of Pleasant Plains Baptist Church & the C.S. Brown & Robert L. Vann Schools, and the achievements of their members & graduates. Leadership in worship, education, business & government.<\/p>\n

Associates; Laverne Jones, Director & Dr. Harold Mitchell, Director.<\/p>\n

Mission of the Chowan Discovery Group is to Collect, Preserve & present materials that describe & illustrate the Winton Triangle history. Dating back to the 1740’s, North Carolina’s Winton Triangle is one of the oldest communities if land-owning people of color in America. The Triangle originally encompassing the towns of Winton, Cofield & Union. In the late 19th century the Triangle expanded toward the newly incorporated town of Ahoskie.<\/p>\n