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30 | Art & Entertainment
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New exhibit explores African American struggles during the Jim Crow era
Continued from page 1
“I feel like you are getting in the face of
these people and they are changed from
caricatures to real people,” said Calinda
Lee, vice president of Historical Interpre
tation and Community Partnerships with
the Atlanta History Center. “These large
images are humanizing.”
The exhibit, created by the New-York
Historical Society in collaboration with
the National Museum of African American
History and Culture, takes a closer look at
the 50 years following the Civil War, after
slavery was abolished and the promises of
equality and full citizenship are made but
repeatedly broken.
The years between 1865 and 1877,
known as Reconstruction, include the pas
sage of the 14th and 15th amendments to
the U.S. Constitution as Congress tries to
heal a divided nation. African Americans
are now considered citizens and gain the
right to vote. But many white southerners
could not accept a black person as their
equal and a harsh backlash ensued.
Many cities and states passed and en
forced “Jim Crow laws” that legalized dis
crimination. Those laws were named for
a character created by a white perform
er who wore blackface in minstrel shows.
The laws segregated schools and public fa
cilities and forced blacks to take obscure
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER
This life-sized portrait of early Morris
Brown College faculty members is part
of the Atlanta History Center’s exhibit,
“Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.”
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