As a professionally trained archivist and historian who grew up in South Carolina, The Legacy of Lyn

As a professionally trained archivist and historian who grew up in South Carolina, The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America exhibition really hit home for me. When I learned the Museum would be partnering with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and Google to present the exhibition, I was very excited to share with my colleagues the Museum’s history of involvement with the anti-lynching movement. In 1935 the NAACP organized an exhibition on the subject of lynching to be held at the Arthur U. Newton Galleries in Manhattan. Walter A. White wrote to Brooklyn Museum’s Director, Philip N. Youtz, inviting him to be a Patron of the exhibition. Youtz accepted, hoping the exhibition, “both by its quality and subject matter will help to put down this form of lawlessness.” The exhibition, with over two thousand people in attendance, carried with it an important social message illustrated by shocking reminders of the reality of life for African Americans across the South.These materials, along with other materials from the Libraries and Archives, are currently on view in the Robert E. Blum Gallery, including select items from the 1963 Art Festival for NAACP Legal Defense, hosted by the Brooklyn Museum.Posted by Jennifer NealPhoto Brooke Baldeschwiler -- source link

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