Free: Registration required: Click here to register. 

Ages 16+

Presenter: Marion Dobbins, a seventh-generation Virginian from Fairfax County is a historian and ethnographer currently pursuing her PhD at George Mason University and is the Commissioner for the Prince Wiliams County Historical Society.

Jennie Dean, a native of Prince William County who was once enslaved, founded the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth after Emancipation. The school opened in September 1894 with a keynote address by Frederick Douglass.

For more information about this event and all City Women's History Month Events, please visit our website. 

This program is cosponsored by the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy.