A traveling exhibition, “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963,” will run Feb. 10 through March 25 at the Linfield College Jereld R. Nicholson Library.
The exhibit will showcase the relationship between two great movements that resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the March on Washington in 1963. Some 100 years separate the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington, yet the two events are linked together in a larger story of liberty and the American experience. Both events were the result of people demanding justice. Both grew out of decades of bold actions, resistance, organization and vision. And both provided inspiration for the future.
Two speakers will be featured during the exhibit. Nicholas Buccola, associate professor of political science at Linfield, will present “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand: Frederick Douglass on Emancipation” on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room of the Jereld R. Nicholson Library at Linfield College.
Waldo Martin, professor of American history and citizenship at University of California Berkeley, will present “Ready for the Revolution? History and the Black Panther Party” on Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room. Martin has published numerous articles and lectured widely on a variety of topics in modern African-American history and culture.
The traveling exhibition is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The exhibit and lectures are free and open to the public. The events are sponsored by the Linfield Department of Political Science, The Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice, the Elliot Alexander Fund for Political Science, the Dean’s Speaker Fund and Nicholson Library. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, college librarian, at swhyte@linfield.edu or 503-883-2517.
