Monday, February 16, 2009

"Let Your Motto Be Resistance"

Henry Highland Garnet, a abolitionist and preacher, famously said in 1843,


This quotation became the theme of the inaugural exhibit of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the newest of the Smithsonian Institution's museums in Washington, D.C.  Curators assembled portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's collection of African-Americans who have chosen resistance through a large variety of means, in their daily lives.  These week's selections will be taken from the exhibit.

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