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Photography for Racial Justice

By Harvard Art Museums

Examine how photography was used as a tool to promote ideas of racial justice in the years during and around the American Civil War.

There are two photographs side by side. The left image is sepia-colored and shows a young boy seated facing left. He is wearing dark pants and a buttoned-up jacket. His light-colored hair is parted to the right. He grasps a large flag, consisting of stars and stripes. The flag is draped over the boy’s seat and spills out onto the floor in front of him. Below, the text reads “Freedom’s Banner. Charley, A Slave Boy from New Orleans.” The image on the right is a black and white photograph and shows an African

.: Sat, February 20 2021 11am – 11:30am.

Ages: Adults.

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