The Schomburg Center’s exhibition, “Claiming Citizenship,” shows how African-Americans made strides during the New Deal era

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Rare, Moving Photos of Black Life During the 1930s and ’40s

The New Deal, a series of experimental projects and programs implemented during President Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency in the 1930s, was designed to…

via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/09/27/the_schomburg_center_s_exhibition_claiming_citizenship_shows_how_african.html

The exhibition, “Claiming Citizenship: African Americans and New Deal Photography,” now at New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, shows African-Americans taking advantage of opportunities that hadn’t been available to them previously