"We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present"

A preview of the Southern Historical Collection's exhibit, "We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present". The exhibit is on view in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room on the third floor of Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill, from Oct. 8, 2009 through Feb. 5, 2010. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information about the exhibit, please email Biff Hollingsworth at biff@unc.edu

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The exhibit contains more than 100 documents, photographs, letters, diaries and other items reflecting the African American Southern experience.

Among the pieces on view will be: * A set of 19th-century shackles, reportedly used for slaves; * A 1961 photograph of Coretta Scott King at an Ebenezer Baptist Church fashion show; and * An original brochure from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the occasion of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech.

The exhibit is part of an initiative from the Southern Historical Collection called Documenting the African American Southern Experience. A series of lectures, readings, and tours throughout the fall semester will examine the theme.

Smaller displays related to We Shall Not Be Moved will be on view in Davis Library (Oct. 8 Nov. 20) and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Library (Oct. 8 Feb. 28).

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• African American
• African American history
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• black history
• African American experience
• Southern
• Southern Historical Collection
• Chapel Hill
• UNC
• University of North Carolina
• Wilson Library
• Tarheels
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