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Claiming Citizenship: African Americans and Works Progress Administration

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News Release Date: September 27, 2010

August 1 - September 30, 2010

Traveling Exhibit

The photographs in this exhibition illustrate the lives of African American people at work, at home, and in various public venues. Topics include: claiming/enacting; expertise and authority; public dignity; community bonds; rights to associate/organize; financial sovereignty; legal personhood.

Put more concretely, the photographs illustrate African Americans claiming citizenship by claiming the right to sustain family, earn a living wage, possess economic security, receive health care, be educated persons, purchase goods, engage in civic life, vote, and have a publicly acknowledged history.

Free and open to the public daily from August 1 to September 30, 2010, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, 1515 SE Monroe Street, Topeka, Kansas, 66612.

For more information, call the Brown Foundation at [phone] or send an email by clicking here.

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