Fredericksburg, Va.’s Museum and Cultural Center will host the traveling exhibit Take Our Stand: The African-American Military Experience in the Age of Jim Crow through this summer.
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The exhibit chronicles black military history from the Spanish-American War to the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. The exhibit features reproduced images and documents from the museum’s collection on 32 panels.
For more information about this traveling exhibit, and to find out where it’s going next, click here.
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