Kara Walker, Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated): Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta, edition 21/35, 2005. Offset lithography and screenprint, 39 x 53 in. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer. © Kara Walker
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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023 | 6:00 PM
Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, the first Black recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History and one of the foremost voices on race and history in America, will deliver a lecture about the sweeping story of Juneteenth and the painful legacies of slavery that persist today.
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