740 East 56th Place Chicago, Illinois 60637 (773) 947-0600

Contact: Raymond Ward (773) 947-0600 ext 228 rward@dusablemuseum.org

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FREEDOM, RESISTANCE AND THE JOURNEY TOWARDS QUALITY SCHEDULED TO OPEN FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015

Chicago, IL. (30 June 2015) --- FREEDOM, RESISTANCE and The Journey Toward Equality, is one of the largest permanent installations ever curated by the staff of the DuSable Museum of African American History, and will highlight a chronological interpretation of the African Diaspora. The exhibition will exclusively utilize objects and artifacts from the Museums own collection and will open on Friday, August 28, 2015 at the Museum which is located at 740 East 56th Place (57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue) in Chicago.

FREEDOM, RESISTANCE and The Journey Toward Equality is dedicated to the thousands of unknown lives given in the name of freedom and quality. It has been designed to take visitors on a journey through the African American experience addressing several key periods throughout history that many visitors have come to anticipate being a permanent fixture within a culturally specific institution such as the DuSable Museum of African American History. The visitor will begin at the apex of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and journey through the chattel slave system in the Americas.

Visitors will then move through Reconstruction, the Great Migration and view the height of the Jim Crow era of racial segregation in this country. At this juncture, the exhibition will deliver the audience into the complex, parallel tracks of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement as they unfolded throughout the 1960s and 70s. Visitors will learn about the achievements and setbacks of the 1980s and 90s before ending their experience at the dawn of the 21st Century as the country elected its first African American President.

FREEDOM, RESISTANCE and The Journey Toward Equality will prompt visitors to come face-to-face with American history illustrated by the use of 200 objects, artifacts and archival videos and images. In addition, with the advancement of exhibition design

and interpretation techniques, this exhibition will provide visitors with the level of storytelling and depth of the Museums collections as it relates to the future.

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Selected artifacts featured in Freedom, Resistance and The Journey Toward Equality includes: Iron Punishment Collar 15th Century Wood Yoke Typically used in a coffle, wooden yokes were employed as punishment devices. Bilboes Leg-Irons Book Ioannis Leonis Africani Africae, 1632 Book The Political State of Great Britain 1734 Am I Not A Man and A Brother English Anti-Slavery token, c.1790 Branding Irons Slave Ship Reproduction Image Slaves for Sale Reproduction Image of Newspaper Advertisement, 1780 1836 Cotton Plantation Owners Journal Leather Brogans/Jefferson Booties, c.1861 first manufactured for enslaved persons as an inexpensive work shoe Field Cradle Wood Five Tine Push Plow Wood & Iron Charleston, South Carolina Slave Tag copper Receipt Three Negro Slaves, 1837 Jolly Nigger Mechanical Bank iron Mammy Figure ceramic Hand painted Jim Crow Diner Sign Upright desk owned by journalist and Suffragist Ida B. Wells Ku Klux Klan Robe c.1920 Postcard, 1908 Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois Fitchburg Sentinel Newspaper, 1919 Bloody Battles Still Rage in Chicago Segregated Sign Colored Only, No White Allowed Lenox Theater, Augusta, Georgia I Am A Man Sign Placard, 1968 Jet Magazine, September 15, 1955 featuring article on Emmett Till lynching FW Woolworth Stool, c1955 Photograph, FW Woolworth Sit-In, 1960 Flyer of Dr. Martin Luther King Speech at Soldier Field, 1966 Poster One Man, One Vote, SNCC Booklet, Racial Segregation is Christian September 15, 1963

The March on Washington Program 1963 Newspaper, Chicago Sun Times Malcolm X Slain February 22, 1965 Free Breakfast Sign Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party Reproduction Image Women of the Black Panther Party Ticket to Senator Barack Obama Presidential campaign announcement, Springfield, Illinois 2007 Barack Obama Hope Campaign Poster and Lapel Pin

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FREEDOM, RESISTANCE and The Journey Toward Equality is sponsored by: The Magellan Corporation, The Irving Harris Foundation, Mrs. Marie Griffin, The DuSable Museum of African American History, and United Airlines, the Official Airline of the DuSable Museum. The DuSable Museum of African American History gratefully acknowledges the Chicago Park Districts generous support of the Museum. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The DuSable Museum of African American History is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM and Sunday from 12:00 NOON until 5:00 PM. Admission is $10 for adults ($8 for Chicago residents), $7 for students and senior citizens ($5 for Chicago residents), $3 for children ages 6 through 11 ($2 for Chicago residents) and children 5 years of age and younger are admitted free. Sundays are FREE to all. The Museum may be reached by CTA buses #3, #4 and #55 and limited free parking is also available on the premises.

About The DuSable Museum of African American History The DuSable Museum of African American History is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the country. Our mission is to collect, preserve and display artifacts and objects that promote understanding and inspire appreciation of the achievements, contributions and experiences of African Americans through exhibits, programs and activities that illustrate African and African American history, culture and art. For more information on the Museum and its programs, please call (773) 947-0600 or visit us at www.dusablemuseum.org

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