The Social History Project Exhibition at Liberty Hall
The Social History Project of the Department of History and Archaeology, UWI, Mona Campus will be launching an exhibition entitled, “Jamaica’s Black Middle Class of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries” at Liberty Hall-The Legacy of Marcus Garvey, 76 King Street, Downtown on Sunday October 31, 2004, at 3:00 p.m. The exhibition is part of on-going research being carried out by Dr. Joy Lumsden, who has been working on the period between the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) and the end of World War I (1918).
The exhibition features biographical profiles, and photographs, of twelve Jamaican individuals who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The Social History Project was established in 1979 by the Department of History, UWI, Mona, to encourage the research of Jamaica’s history in the period following the abolition of slavery. The exhibition will run to the end of November. The public is invited.