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Explore citizenship, civil rights & photography

December 21, 2013 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Free

The New Deal-era photographs in Claiming Citizenship illustrate a number of ways that African Americans took opportunities opened up by the New Deal to claim their status as citizens, in some ways laying foundations for the Civil Rights Movement. The exhibition–curated by Rickie Solinger–also explores (implicitly and explictily) the constituent elements of “citizenship.”

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Details

Date:
December 21, 2013
Time:
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
628-515 Malcolm X Boulevard
Manhattan, NY 10037 United States
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Organizer

New York Public Library
Phone
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/lunch-hour-nyc-0