These mothers of Black feminism had one big thing in common — D.C.
So the women organizing it did as women have done for millennia — they made do. They launched it as an online-only museum. Practical, accessible, pragmatic. And super-futuristic back in 1996, 25 years before all the museums scrambled to be just like them during the pandemic.
Not only are folks going to learn about the often unheralded contributions to our nation’s policies made by Black women — think of it as the “The exhibit draws the line from women born into slavery all the way to Vice President Harris. And that line runs straight through D.C. history professor and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University, and the other curator of the exhibit.And as those women arrived in D.C., they seized on those earliest freedoms in education and activism to build the foundation of much of America’s feminist and civil rights arguments.
The exhibit, on the ground floor of that gorgeous, renovated library, has interactive video displays, a giant Wheel of Fortune wall to help you write your own manifesto and breathtaking stories.The curators reached all the way back to a woman born into slavery who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris,You’ll see how Howard University — a place where Black women banned from other universities for being Black or for being female — became a crucible for their fiery intellectualism and activism.
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