Black Lives, Black Letters: Primary Sources in African American History Until Apr 15, 2022 · 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM at Fondren Library at SMU
This exhibition features rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, prints, photographs, manuscripts and ephemera documenting aspects of the Black experience in America from the colonial period to the present. It includes artifacts from Phillis Wheatley, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass and Barack Obama as well as from less familiar, sometimes anonymous, figures from the past, in literature, education, politics, religion, business, sports, the performing arts, domestic life, and popular culture.