Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.)
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
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• Traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, giving voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content–Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Prologue — Progress of a Race : The Black Side’s Contribution to Atlanta’s World’s Fair — Exhibiting the American Negro — Remembering Emancipation Up North — Look Back, March Forward — To Make a Black Museum — Epilogue.

Subjects:

• African Americans — Exhibitions — History.
• African Americans — Museums — History.
• Exhibitions — Social aspects — United States — History.
• Museums — Social aspects — United States — History.
• Memory — Social aspects — United States — History.
• Public history — United States — History.
• Slaves — Emancipation — United States.
• African Americans — Civil rights — History.
• Anti-racism — United States — History.
• United States — Race relations — History.

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