Title Negro Building : Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums / Mabel O. Wilson

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 442 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Notes "Reprint 2019"--Walter de Gruyter digital title page "George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020) Subject 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 Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States African Americans -- Civil rights -- History Anti-racism -- United States -- History ART -- American -- General. ART -- Museum Studies. African Americans -- Civil rights Anti-racism Memory -- Social aspects Museums -- Social aspects Public history Race relations Enslaved persons -- Emancipation SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520952492 0520952499

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