A Guy Named Joe
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Curator: Mary Elliott, Washington Post photo Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876–1968 This exhibition takes visitors from the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
She has over twenty years of experience in researching and presenting African American history and culture. Her personal research focuses on African Americans from antebellum slavery through the Jim Crow Era, with a specific concentration on migration and community development.
Mar 9, 2022 · Our final conversation in the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project features Mary N. Elliott, museum specialist and curator of American slavery at the Smithsonian Museum. Elliott helped to research, conceptualize and design the “Slavery and Freedom” inaugural exhibition for Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Mary Elliott, Curator of American Slavery Juneteenth is a significant date in American history and the African American experience. The name is a play on the date of June 19th, 1865.
Mary Elliott, Curator of American Slavery Juneteenth is important, because it reminds us of what we came through and what we can achieve. As my colleagues mentioned, the reason General Order Number 3 existed and the Union Army fought to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, is because slavery existed.
Aug 19, 2019 · Curated by Mary Elliott. All text by Mary Elliott and Jazmine Hughes Aug. 19, 2019. Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with...
Ms. Elliott publishes and lectures on topics including slavery and freedom, Reconstruction, community engagement, material culture and public history. She’s worked with U.S. representatives on...
