Negro building
Subtitle: Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums
By: Mabel O. Wilson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780520268425
Subjects: Public history; Race relations; Exhibitions; Anti-racism; Civil rights; Museums; Slaves; Memory; Emancipation; African Americans; History
Description: Traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, giving voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Progress of a Race : The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair; title: Exhibiting the American Negro; title: Remembering Emancipation Up North; title: Look Back, March Forward; title: To Make a Black Museum; title: Epilogue.