Slave-related artifacts are on display at the DuSable Museum of African American History as part of the permanent exhibit “Freedom, Resistance and the Journey Toward Equality.” ( Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune 2015 )
Check out these Midwest spots that explore the African-American experience.
A photo display of the famous lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., can be found at the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune 2015)
The Kinsey Collection, amassed by Los Angeles philanthropists Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, melds four centuries of African-American art, history and culture into a single, multifaceted look at the black experience in America. Part of it is on display in Cincinnati. (Amy S. Eckert/Chicago Tribune )
The 1789 work “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African” by Olaudah Equiano is a rare, first-person account of an individual’s capture in Africa, his transportation to and enslavement in America and his eventual success in purchasing his own freedom. It’s on display in a temporary exhibit at Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. ( Amy S. Eckert/Chicago Tribune )
The Freedom Center’s 19th-century slave pen dominates the museum’s permanent collection. Originally constructed just 60 miles away in Mason County, Ky., the well-preserved log structure was used to temporarily hold slaves en route to markets in the South. (Amy S. Eckert/Chicago Tribune )
