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Black History Month Exhibit
at the University Libraries

In recognition of Black History Month, the Old Dominion University Libraries is featuring an exhibit, "From Slavery to Freedom: Africans in America."  The exhibit will be available through the month of February 2007, in the main lobby of Perry Library. An online companion presentation is also available here.

The exhibit includes photos and textual materials illustrating key moments in the struggle of African Americans from slavery to freedom:  from slave conditions in early America, to slave revolts in the 18th and 19th centuries, to the Abolitionist Movement and the Civil War, to lynching and the end of reconstruction, to Jim Crow laws, to the Civil Rights Era, and to the present.  Recognition is also given to the "Norfolk 17," the 17 African American students who integrated Norfolk's public schools, which were closed in 1958 in defiance of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

For more information, please contact the creators of the exhibit -- Nakheia McFarland at nmcfarla@odu.edu or Edison Simmons at esimmons@odu.edu