African American Life at the 1900 Paris Exposition
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African American Life at the 1900 Paris Exposition
W. E. B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway / 1900 Paris Exposition photographs · 1900
The photographs assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition documented Black education, institutions, occupations, family life, and achievement for an international audience. They are unusually valuable for studying how Black communities represented themselves beyond the United States.
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