From Being Property to Owning Property

This virtual presentation from the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum in Thomasville will provide a brief history of the Stevens Street District in Thomasville, one of the few remaining and intact African American neighborhoods built after the Civil War. Included in this presentation is part of the museum’s story itself—it was formerly a boarding house in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that stood at the heart of the Stevens Street District on Oak Street.

The presentation will feature Gylbert Coker (the museum’s executive director), Jan DeCosmo, Eboné Amos, Lililita Forbes, and Juliana Forero.

The event is free and open to the public to attend on Zoom. At the time of the event, visit Zoom online or through the app and enter the following details: the event’s meeting ID is 873 2848 3950 and the event’s password is 489767.

This event is supported in part by a grant from Georgia Humanities.