Dear Anna,
Try the UVa. Library's Special Collections Department or Hampton Institute.
 UVa's Special Collections just produced a great photographic book
entitled, "Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education," that
depicts images on your subject.




At 08:20 AM 6/22/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear listers, I curated a touring exhibition about Christiansburg
>Institute, a former African American school; now I find myself curating an
>on-line exhibiton of its history. We need an image of an African American
>child/adult/group learning to read or reading which will be used to
>illustrate the fact that, under slavery, it was illegal to teach blacks to
>read.  We will then contrast that prohibition with the establishment of the
>school immediately after the civil war.
>
>I thought there was such an image by O. Tanner in the Smithsonian's Sharing
>Traditions, but when I looked again, it was a music lesson.  Can anyone
>suggest an image like this?  Of course, we will still have to go through
>the traditional reproduction/permission routes.
>thanks
>Anna Fariello
>
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