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On View:
Becoming American: African Americans and American Politics
On View: January 15--April 19, 2009
Before Barack Obama, there was Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and a host of other heroes and sheroes of the African-American struggle for freedom and human dignity, fighting to make America and American Democracy real for all of its citizens. Like Attucks, people of African descent were there at the founding of the nation. And since Attucks, millions have fought, bled and died to help define, defend and protect the ideals of freedom, justice and equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. African Americans and American Politics is a brief survey of that quest over the last 200+ years.
OBAMA: THE HISTORIC CAMPAIGN & VICTORY IN PHOTOS
The exhibition Obama: The Historic Campaign & Victory in Photos presents 100 photographs documenting the campaign from its start with several thousand supporters gathered in Springfield, Illinois on a very cold day in February 2007 to that unusually warm evening in Chicago on November 4, 2008 when Barack Obama delivered his victory speech as President-elect of the United States of America. The images capture the vitality of the campaign and the passion and commitment of the millions who rallied to Obama’s theme, Yes We Can!, as his movement for Change grew and moved forward. The exhibition is curated by Deborah Willis and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.
December 11--March 30, 2009
Latimer/Edison Gallery
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