Living History: Black Citizenship

Sat Dec 29, 2018 - Sun Dec 30, 2018
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Repeating every days through December 30, 2018.
12:00pm to 4:00pm ET
Age: All
Price: Free with museum admission
Location:
New York Historical Society and DiMenna Children’s History Museum
170 Central Park West at 77th Street, New York, NY,
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How did black New Yorkers and African Americans across the nation exercise their citizenship after the Civil War? In conjunction with Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, meet Living Historians portraying activists and famous figures from the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras demonstrating their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Get to know pioneering figures like Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Madam C.J. Walker and learn about African American schools during the late 1800s.

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