Libraries at Bard College Presents
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection | Exhibition Opening Reception
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library Lobby. Exhibition on view through March 30.4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
For more information, call 845-758-7396, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://bard.edu/library.
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library