The history of African Americans in the South is often focused on two events: the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
The Atlanta History Center is trying to focus on the time period between those years of discrimination.
The center’s new exhibit, “Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, Exploring African American Struggle for Full Citizenship and Equality,” analyzes this frequently overlooked aspect of American history. The exhibit will feature several artists from Hale Aspacio Woodruff to Mark Hewitt.
“The artists being featured, all were focused on their experiences as African Americans and the contradictions and being deeply invested in their Americanness and yet troubled, to say the least,” said the Atlanta History Center’s vice president of historical interpretation and community partnerships, Calinda Lee.
The exhibit was created by the New York Historical Society in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
