DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 2, 2023) — This public talk provides insight into the compelling life of Gregoria Fraser Goins, an Afro-Dominican woman on the margins of African-American history. Born to a West Indian apothecary and an African-American doctor in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in 1883, Goins and her mother relocated to the United States following her father’s untimely death. Goins lived most of her life amongst well-to-do African-Americans in Washington DC. As a result, she most often appears in the footnotes of African-American history as the biographer of her mother, one of the first black female doctors; as a member of the National Association of Negro Musicians; or as supplying pictures of black American life. Yet despite these Washington ties, she consistently visited her homeland of the Dominican Republic. Believing Goins’s life is a worthy subject in its own right, just as worthy as her mother’s, this talk is an effort to move her from the margins to the nexus of African-American and Latin American History. To learn more, join us at 6:30PM Wednesday, March 8, Fairmount.

Registration is required.

For more information and to register, please visit: https://davenportlibrary.libcal.com/event/9930418.

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The Davenport Public Library is the municipal library for the City of Davenport, Iowa, serving a population of 102,196 residents. The Library has three conveniently-located facilities: Main, Fairmount, and Eastern. Main is also the home of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center, which focuses on local history and genealogy. New in 2020, the Library acquired the Outreach Wheeled Library (OWL) that brings library services directly to retirement facilities, schools, day-cares, community events, and organizations throughout Davenport. Patrons can access our library catalog, website, e-books, e-audiobooks, and countless digital resources, remotely 24-hours a day. Wireless Internet access and public computers, faxing, copying, notary services, and scanning are available at each of our locations.

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