Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

by Mabel O. Wilson

Book Overview

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 who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520383079
• ISBN13: 9780520383074
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"