LCP in the News: Historic African American visions of a life of freedom and elegance

A photo of an unidentified young African American woman is deeply creased as if it were folded and carried around by someone who valued it. It is part of an exhibit at the Library Company of Philadelphia called “Negro Pasts and Afro-futures.” (Emma Lee/WHYY)

A photo of an unidentified young African American woman is deeply creased as if it were folded and carried around by someone who valued it. It is part of an exhibit at the Library Company of Philadelphia called "Negro Pasts and Afro-futures." (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Read Peter Crimmins’ (WHYY) review of the Library Company’s current exhibition, From Negro Pasts to Afro-Futures: Black Creative Re-Imaginings, which highlights this circa 1872 lithograph of seven African Americans who were newly-elected to Congress.

Historic African American visions of a life of freedom and elegance

By Peter Crimmins, WHYY