“This exhibition is all about how Black folks not only survived, but how they, in some ways, morally and psychologically prospered during that time,” said UVA professor John Edwin Mason.
A collection of 10,000 stereotype-defying images documenting Black life in Central Virginia during the Jim Crow era will be showcased at the University of Virginia through September 2023.
“Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift,” the exhibit featuring photographs by Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger, includes over 600 self-portraits commissioned by Black Virginians during the turn of the 20th century, according to the today!
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