First Sunday Lecture: The African-American Experience in South Cobb

"The African-American Experience in South Cobb"

Sunday, February 9, 2020
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room

Speaker: Dr. William Marchione, author of A Brief History of Smyrna, Georgia

Working with a diverse team of researchers, Dr. Marchione will share findings from an exhaustive examination of the black experience in the City of Smyrna and its immediate environs.  Dr. Marchione's presentation will furnish a richly detailed, chronological history of the black experience in Smyrna, based on a panoply of newspaper accounts, oral interviews, and census data analysis, accompanied by much new photographic material.

Sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.