Speaker Date: February 2, 2024
Two antebellum white spinster sisters in Marvin, N.C., raised a Black man and then his daughter as their own beginning in Reconstruction.
The women left them their 800-acre homeplace, a will upheld against all odds by two white juries in Monroe in the 1920s. The personal relationships and economic empowerment left Marvin untouched by Jim Crow to this day.
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Gene Stowe
Freelance Writer
BIOGRAPHY
- Graduated from Monroe High School 1972
- UNC (religion) 1975
- Lutheran Theological Seminary (MTS) 1983
- Reporter for The Charlotte Observer 1981-1993
- Teacher, head of writing and religion program for Trinity Schools Inc. in South Bend, Indiana 1993-2012
- Freelance writer 2013 to present
EXTRA CREDIT
Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie’s Will (University Press of Mississippi, 2006).
YouTube: Inherit the Land 2020, Inherit the Land Official Trailer.