How Maggie and Mittie Made Marvin a Model
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.