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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Learn more about The Schomburg Center's
Traveling Exhibition Program 
Current | Upcoming | Past | Online | Exhibition Info Be sure to check library hours and holidays for important information. Exhibition Hours: Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday. Courage: The Black New York Struggle for Quality Education  This exhibition highlights black New Yorkers 200 year struggle for quality education in New York City. read more... Image: Rev. Milton Galamison, president of the Brooklyn NAACP, leads anti-school segregation rally in Brooklyn, ca. 1959. Photographer: Charles L. Gill. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to fight for It  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 Court’s declaration in 1954 that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional initiated massive change in race relations across the country. This traveling exhibition, organized in 2004 by the Levine Museum of the New South to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, tells the story of that community—people outside the traditional power structure, without wealth and often with little classroom education—and how they worked together to begin the process that ended legal segregation of the races.
Image: Bar graph using books to show the inequity of dollars spent in white schools as opposed to black schools. African Americans and American Politics 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 Democracy real for all of its citizens. Like Attucks, people of African descent were there at the founding of the nation. And since Attucks, millions have fought, bled and died to help define, defend and protect the ideals of freedom, justice and equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. African Americans and American Politics is a brief survey of that quest over the last 200+ years. |
