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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Anna Fariello, Curatorial InSight, Box 505, Christiansburg VA 24068
www.curatorialinsight.com;  540-382-3946;  [log in to unmask]
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061-0227
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