Exhibit Dates
November 1 –
December 31
Alameda County
Law Library
Conf Rm 8
125 12th Street
Oakland, CA
94607
President Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation in
1863 in the midst of the Civil
War. But it was not until
December 1865 when the Thirteenth
Amendment was ratified by
Congress, that slavery became illegal
everywhere in the U.S.
Black Americans continued to struggle
with the contradiction between democracy
and racism. One hundred years after the
Emancipation Proclamation, their struggle
became the Civil Rights Movement.
So how will this shape the future—
100 years later? 25-year old
Please join us for photojournalist Africano
the Artists’
Fotographia calls his generation
Reception,
the “future…post-civil rights era,
November 12
after the assassinations of black
from 6-8 PM
activists, COINTELPRO and the
crack epidemic of the ‘80s.”
Curator/creator Kheven LaGrone
asked artists in this exhibit to
address this question. They use a
range of medium alongside
historical and fictional writings.