The Road To Hope January 20, 2009

The Road to Hope: A Photographic Glimpse of African American Life 1850-1960

Jan 20-February 28, 2009
Opening reception, Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009
7pm-10pm,

DiverseArts is glad to commemorate the Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, with the opening of The Road to Hope: A Photographic Glimpse of African American Life 1850-1960. The exhibit features a range of beautiful, moving—and sometimes tragic—“found” images that illustrate the depth and range of the Black experience in America through Civil War-era daguerreotypes, to dusty images of proud Buffalo Soldiers. Others still show us the pain and degradation of life in the Jim Crow South, hard times in the Great Depression’s dust bowl, and the fight for equal educational justice and desegregation at Little Rock’s Central High School.

Curated by Neil Coleman of Pro-Jex Gallery and Tim Taylor of Austin Image Research

Official Website: http://ns9.webmasters.com/*diversearts.org/httpdocs/events/road_to_hope.htm