TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Mabel O.
TI  - Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums 
SN  - 9780520952492
AV  - E185.53.A1 
U1  - 305.896/073 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - History
KW  - Museums
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Memory
KW  - Public history
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Anti-racism
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Expositions
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Musées
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire appliquée
KW  - Droits
KW  - Antiracisme
KW  - ART
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Reprint 2019"--Walter de Gruyter digital title page; "George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and index; Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Prologue --; 1. Progress of a Race: The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair --; 2. Exhibiting the American Negro --; 3. Remembering Emancipation Up North --; 4. Look Back, March Forward --; 5. To Make a Black Museum --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
N2  - Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital--until now
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