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Past Exhibitions

  • The New Harlem Renaissance Photographers Image

    Harlem Views/Diasporan Visions: The New Harlem Renaissance Photographers

    February 1, 2011 (All day) - June 30, 2011 (All day)

    Harlem Views/Diasporan Visions: The New Harlem Renaissance Photographers is the inaugural exhibition by the 25 members of New Harlem Renaissance Photographers. Views of Harlem, including the recent West African immigrant community and 

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  • What\'s Up @ the Schomburg? Image

    What's Up @ the Schomburg?

    May 7, 2010 (All day) - January 3, 2011 (All day)

    Located within the walls of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are surprisingly rare and unique books, manuscripts, artworks, photographs and memorabilia as old as the 4th century and as new as today!

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  • Jerry Pinkney\'s African-American Journey to Freedom Image

    Jerry Pinkney's African-American Journey to Freedom

    February 5, 2010 (All day) - April 18, 2010 (All day)

    Jerry Pinkney's African-American Journey to Freedom
    The Seagram Collection of African-American Art

    This exhibition is a stunning collection of 35 watercolor paintings by the award-winning children’s book illustrator and artist. Originally commissioned by the 

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  • The First Year Image

    President Barack Obama: The First Year

    February 5, 2010 (All day) - April 18, 2010 (All day)

    President Barack Obama: The First Year
    Photographs by Pete Souza,
    Chief Official White House Photographer

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  • Courage: The Black New York Struggle for Quality Education

    October 2, 2009 (All day) - December 31, 2009 (All day)

    This exhibition explores the visions and aspirations of courageous leaders and parents who have been seeking to educate black children. It looks at the obstacles black children have faced and the comparative nature of the learning environments and belated examples of educational success that 

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  • Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to fight for It

    October 2, 2009 (All day) - December 31, 2009 (All day)

    Few Americans realize that the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education started in South Carolina, when a country preacher named Rev. J. A. De Laine and his neighbors in Clarendon County filed a lawsuit demanding the end of separate, unequal schools for their children. The Supreme 

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  • St. Philip's Episcopal Church Bicentennial Exhibition

    May 3, 2009 (All day) - August 30, 2009 (All day)

    St. Philip's Episcopal Church Bicentennial Exhibition presents the 200 year history of St. Philip's, from 1809 to 2009. Notable church members include Rev. Peter Williams Jr., James McCune Smith, Elizabeth Jennings, Kenneth Clarke, and Thurgood Marshall.

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  • Africans in Europe Image

    They Won't Budge: Africans in Europe

    April 22, 2009 (All day) - July 26, 2009 (All day)

    A photographic exhibition reveals the determination, resilience, and struggle of Africans living in Europe. More than 100 photographs by award-winning photographers. Curated by the Program In Africana Studies at New York University.

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  • African Americans and American Politics

    August 27, 2008 (All day) - April 19, 2009 (All day)

  • Becoming American: African Americans and American Politics

    January 15, 2009 (All day) - April 19, 2009 (All day)

    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 

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