Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  Water’s Edge - Black Watermen of the Chesapeake

Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and  The Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET)  to celebrate African Americans and Labor (2025 Black History Theme) with a film screening and panel discussion  on  Maryland’s Black watermen.  This program will also commemorate the memory of Vincent Leggett, founder of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation. 

Water’s Edge: Black Watermen of the Chesapeake reveals the unique relationship and untold stories between African Americans and the Chesapeake Bay.  Water’s Edge: Black Watermen of the Chesapeake chronicles unsung Marylanders that revolutionized an industry, dreamed beyond their circumstance and are still keeping this tradition alive today. Meet George H. Brown, an ambitious steamboat captain that revolutionized recreation for Black Marylanders in the early twentieth century, innovators like the Turner Family of Bellevue and present-day captains who have survived by shifting their businesses from commercial fishing to chartering fishing parties. 

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