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Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876
Now showingPermanent collection·$20
AAMP's core installation: an interactive century-long timeline and life-size video projections bring nine free Black Philadelphians, from Richard Allen to Octavius Catto, into conversation with visitors.
Free in the same building
- Anna Russell Jones: The Art of DesignTextile patterns, drawings and archives of Anna Russell Jones, the first African American graduate of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and a long career in commercial design.
- Rendering JusticeCurated by artist Jesse Krimes, work by formerly and currently incarcerated artists confronting mass incarceration and its grip on contemporary America.
- The Pearl Bailey ShowcaseScrapbooks, costumes and archival material from AAMP's Bailey/Bellson Collection, tracing the Broadway, nightclub and television career of Philadelphia-raised entertainer Pearl Bailey.
- Through His Eyes: Youth Activism in the Civil Rights Era in PhiladelphiaPhotographs from AAMP's Jack T. Franklin collection surfacing the Black teenagers and students who carried Philadelphia's civil rights protests.
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- Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876Courtesy of African American Museum in Philadelphia
- The Declaration's JourneyPennsylvania Evening Post / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- An Endless Meeting: Still Taking MinutesCourtesy of Vox Populi
- African American Museum in Philadelphiaajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- National Constitution CenterBeyond My Ken, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum of the American Revolutionajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Vox PopuliVox Populi
- The Fabric Workshop and MuseumJohn Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0