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Children holding a protest sign, from the Jack T. Franklin photographic collection

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African American Museum in Philadelphia · Old City / Historic District

Through His Eyes: Youth Activism in the Civil Rights Era in Philadelphia

Now showingPermanent collection·Free

Photographs from AAMP's Jack T. Franklin collection surfacing the Black teenagers and students who carried Philadelphia's civil rights protests.

Exhibition website

Also at African American Museum in Philadelphia

On now nearby

Pennsylvania's Founding: How a City and a Colony Shaped America's Civic DNA

National Constitution Center

The Pennsylvania Evening Post of 6 July 1776, the first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence

The Declaration's Journey

Museum of the American Revolution

Still Taking Minutes exhibition banner, Vox Populi

An Endless Meeting: Still Taking Minutes

Vox Populi

All exhibitions in Philadelphia this month Coming up in November

Nearby

The National Constitution Center seen from Arch Street, Philadelphia

National Constitution Center

Children3 min walk

Red-brick exterior of the Museum of the American Revolution at Third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia

Museum of the American Revolution

Military8 min walk

The Vox Populi galleries on the third floor of 319 North 11th Street, Philadelphia

Vox Populi

ArtFree9 min walk

The Fabric Workshop and Museum building on Arch Street, Philadelphia

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

DesignFree9 min walk

Image credits

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Through His Eyes: Youth Activism in the Civil Rights Era in PhiladelphiaCourtesy 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

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