September 12-December 31, 2009

This unique photographic exhibit offers a glimpse into an era which, according to historians, marks the country’s most widespread period of racial discrimination, legal segregation and violence. The exhibit will also reflect on the quest for civil rights and the rise of white supremacy.

Photographs featured in this exhibit represent various modern era formats, including: albumen print, ambrotype, calotype/talbotype, chromogenic print, collodion/wet plate, collotype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, gelatin silver print –1, glass plate, photo gravure,platinum and paladium print, and tintype/ferrotype.