Exhibit: Claiming Citizenship: African Americans and New Deal Photography

This exhibit is on view in the Burritt Library, 2nd floor through April 30

Please join us for a reception and a talk by Rickie Solinger, exhibit curator

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

3:15 p.m. Burritt library, 2nd floor

Event is free and open to the public

Rickie Solinger is a historian, writer, and lecturer. For this exhibit she used prints made from archival photographs found in the Library of Congress and the National Archives.  These photographs illustrate the significant new freedoms African Americans claimed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Sponsored by:
Office of Diversity and Equity – History Department – Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
– Committee on the Concerns of Women – Ruth Boyea Women’s Center – Elihu Burritt Library

Claiming citizenship

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