Anna,
    Have you tried Berea College?
Chuck Watkins

Anna Fariello 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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