G Faye Dant

G. Faye Dant is the founder and director of Jim's Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center, a local Black history museum. She grew up in Douglasville in Hannibal, one of the oldest African American communities west of the Mississippi River. She is a fifth-generation descendant of enslaved Missourians and Civil War veterans. She left Hannibal in 1971 and did not return to Missouri to live until 2011. As a community historian and the curator of the Jim's Journey Museum, Faye is compelled to tell...See more

G. Faye Dant is the founder and director of Jim's Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center, a local Black history museum. She grew up in Douglasville in Hannibal, one of the oldest African American communities west of the Mississippi River. She is a fifth-generation descendant of enslaved Missourians and Civil War veterans. She left Hannibal in 1971 and did not return to Missouri to live until 2011. As a community historian and the curator of the Jim's Journey Museum, Faye is compelled to tell these stories of Hannibal's ordinary and extraordinary Black community--they all get a place on the walls of Hannibal's newest museum. See less