{"id":10810,"date":"2019-04-24T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:11:20","slug":"lindsey-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/lindsey-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Lindsey_talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Lindsey_talk.jpg 615w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Lindsey_talk-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Lindsey Jones will give a talk about the database she is creating about the education and incarceration of black girls in Virginia during Jim Crow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is free and open to the public. A Q&amp;A and reception will follow the talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jones is collecting information about the girls who were committed to the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, the state of Virginia\u2019s reformatory for black girls, operational between 1915 and the 1950s, after the courts across the state labeled them \u201cdelinquent.\u201d The reformatory was designed by a statewide network of black women activists to protect and educate troubled black girls rather than punishing them for adolescent misbehaviors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lindsey Jones<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Lindsey Jones, Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Education at Brown, is working on a book project that explores the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia, focusing specifically upon the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls. As part of this project, Dr. Jones is designing a relational database to collect information about the individual girls who were committed to this reformatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is part of the Library&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Center for Digital Scholarship (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/cds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a> <strong>dSalon<\/strong> series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Wednesday, May 1, 2019<br><strong>Time<\/strong>: 4 p.m.<br><strong>Location<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect St, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Lindsey Jones will give a talk about the database she is creating about the education and incarceration of black girls in Virginia during Jim Crow. This event is free and open to the public. A Q&amp;A and <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/lindsey-jones\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33,4,5,34,155,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-digital-projects","category-eresources","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-home-page","category-publications","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}