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	African Americans in the Sciences The Library joins the University of Chicago in its celebration of the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth with Highlights from the Library's African American Collections.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Jan. 7 — Jan. 31, 2005	Subjects African-American Studies
	African-American Studies: Resources in the University of Chicago Library This exhibition explores the University of Chicago Library's broad array of research materials documenting African-American history and culture.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Feb. 1 — June 1, 1999	Subjects African-American Studies
	The Black Metropolis Research Consortium: Fifteen Years of Preserving and Documenting Black History and Culture in Chicago The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is a Chicago-based membership association that aids in expanding broad access to its members’ holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic history, politics and culture, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. Our members include universities, libraries, museums, community, arts-based and government archives. It is the mission of the BMRC to connect all who seek to document, share, understand and preserve Black experiences. In 2021, the BMRC celebrates its 15th anniversary. This exhibit documents the origins of the BMRC, its efforts to aid discoverability and access to Black historical collections, and the consortium’s flagship Summer Short-term Fellowship and Archie Motley Archival Internship programs.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center View web exhibit >>	Subjects American History History African-American Studies
	Degrees of Distinction: Eva Overton Lewis and Julian Herman Lewis, MD, PhD at the University of Chicago and Beyond Eva Overton Lewis (1893-1945) was a University of Chicago graduate, a charter member of the University of Chicago's Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and the daughter of entrepreneur Anthony Overton Jr. Julian Herman Lewis, MD, PhD (1891-1989) was a University of Chicago graduate, pathologist, educator, and author of The Biology of the Negro (1942). This exhibit sheds light on their early life, their families, their time at the University of Chicago, their union and children, and their travels.	Aug. 7 — Aug. 7, 2024 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois African-American Studies
	Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago, 1870-1940 This exhibit presents original manuscripts, rarely seen portraits and photographs, African American publications, books by African American graduates of the University of Chicago, and other documents that trace the interlocking strands of academic and gradual social integration through the mid-twentieth century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 28, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies University of Chicago
	James Baldwin Among The Philosophers James Baldwin’s work is widely recognized for its religious overtones and influences as well as for its critiques of racism and heterosexual norms. His work is equally important as a contribution to American philosophy.	Locations Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room Sept. 25 — Dec. 31, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies Religion English Literature Philosophy
	Race and the Design of American Life: African Americans in Twentieth-Century Commercial Art Drawing from collections of food packaging, advertisements, children's books, album covers, and other household goods, this exhibit traces the vexed history of African Americans in commercial art—as images and as makers of their own image—and their vital role in shaping the rise and establishment of our modern consumer society.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 14 — Jan. 4, 2014 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies Art
	A Voice for Justice: The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells This web exhibit showcases the achievements of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) and documents her lifelong campaign for the rights and lives of African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States of America.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center View web exhibit >>	Subjects Chicago and Illinois American History African-American Studies