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Historic Event

The Water Spirit Will Take Us Home

    Africa & the Diaspora

    Art

    Literature

    Slavery

    Slavery & Abolition, 1800-1860

Photograph of Boat in the Marshes of St. Simon’s Island
They could fly, they could fly
They could slip the bonds of earth and rise so high
They could fly across the ocean
Together, hand in hand
Searching, always searching for the promised land.

Rhiannon Giddens, We Could Fly, 2017

Black and White photograph of female African American students seated in a classroom.  They appear to be sewing/  There are several women standing toward the chalkboard in the rear of the class.  There is one sewing machine in the foreground, being used by a woman.  A woman stands in the front of the class next to a dressed mannequin wearing a long-sleeved blouse and long skirt.
Historic Event

W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition

    Literature

Three quarter length oil painting portrait of a woman with closely cropped hair holding a teacup and saucer decorated.  She is dressed in a high necked red blouse with a yellow scarf. She also wears a black and white stiped pants.
Historic Event

The Power of a Portrait

    Art

People waiting in line to vote
Present to Past

Legislating Rights

    Slavery