The contents of a box had long been a mystery, but now, it's unlocked to the public and revealing 100 years of history.
It's Black history in living color. The Newberry Museum in Chicago has acquired rare images from a critical period in U.S. history, early in the 20th century."This is the box that it was originally carried around in in the 1920s and that it came to us in," said Will Hanson, curator of Newberry Library."It really is like a treasure chest."
"It's really special to us to be able to show these, probably the first time in about 100 years that anyone has seen them, because they are their connection of Chicago's African American community, but other African American communities throughout the country, to this story, which is one of the most important transformations in American history," Hanson said.
It's Black history in living color. The Newberry Museum in Chicago has acquired rare images from a critical period in U.S. history, early in the 20th century."I love the image of the basketball team, which is St. Mark's Church basketball team," Hanson said."St. Mark's is one of the great African American Methodist churches here in Chicago. Their basketball team won the city church league in 1921-1922.
"One of the things that churches like St. Mark's stepped up to do was provide daycare for these families," Hanson said."And you have this image of these children in a room with smiling women looking over them. And they're leading them in prayer before lunch. Again, it's such an optimistic hopeful kind of image for how these communities hopes their lives might be in a city like Chicago.
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