Some amazing events at Marietta House Museum
Marietta House Museum’s Women’s History Month Presentation:
“Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All”.
Join Marietta House Museum, Thursday, March 10, 6:30pm – 7:30pm for a Women’s History Month talk with Dr. Martha Jones, history professor from Johns Hopkins University. This virtual presentation on Microsoft Teams features Dr. Jones speaking about her award-winning book “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All”.
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing the vote for black women required a movement of their own. Dr. Jones researched the accounts of Black women in America who collaborated, took risks, and defied the odds to give voice to a massive group of silenced people in all the United States. Dr. Jones recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the right to vote. And in the process, Black women wielded political power to work towards securing the equality and dignity of all persons.
Ages 10 and older. To register for this program, please email stacey.hawkins@pgparks.com or visit Parks Direct. $5/person.
Saturday, June 11th, 1pm – 3pm. Walk of Witness: Recalling the Enslaved Community
As a kick-off event for Juneteenth programing, Marietta House Museum presents Walk of Witness: Recalling the Enslaved Community in partnership with the regional poetry group, The Voices of Woodlawn. Talented poets and artists with Marietta House Museum will guide guests across the hallowed grounds at Marietta in a walk of remembrance of those enslaved in the 18th and 19th centuries. Visitors will participate in an art-filled choreographed walk around Marietta’s grounds with stops highlighting freedom stories. The walk will also include poetry performances, sensitive conversations, journaling opportunities, and a brief talk about historical slave burials and funeral traditions at the cemetery grounds. All ages, Free. To register visit Parks Direct or call (301) 464-5291
Saturday, July 16, 10am – 3pm. Poetry Lab
Marietta House Museum, in partnership with The Write Women Bookfest, EC Poetry & Prose, and the Eastern Shore Writers Association present a Poetry Lab for active and aspiring poets. The Poetry Lab begins with a workshop led by a prominent Maryland poet followed by poetry writing sessions set on the historical landscape and inside Marietta House facilitated by published poets. The Poetry Lab registration fee includes a delicious lunch. All the participants will have the opportunity to have their poems from the Poetry Lab published on a local level through the collaborating partners. $25 per person. Ages 18 and older. Limit of 32 participants, please register early. To register visit Parks Direct or call (301) 464-5291
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
In honor of Black History Month, Marietta House Museum is pleased to welcome historian Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson from Johns Hopkins University History Department who will discuss her new book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World on Thursday, February 10, 6:30pm – 7:30pm, in a virtual presentation.
The story of freedom is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. Dr. Johnson explores the nature of the complicated, historical, and intimate relationships these women used to construct freedom in the Atlantic world.
Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is a Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University and a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora. She is also the Founding Curator of #ADPhDProjects, bringing social justice and histories of slavery together.
Thank you to the Prince George’s County Historical Society for their support of this program.
This will be a virtual presentation on Microsoft Teams. To register email stacey.hawkins@pgparks.com or register on Parks Direct. $5/person