Say It with Pictures: Photography, Black Chicago and the Great Migration

Arts & Culture

Say It with Pictures: Photography, Black Chicago and the Great Migration

Newberry Library · Near North Side

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A real, specific local story: how Black Chicagoans arriving during the Great Migration used photography — studio portraits, family albums, photojournalism — to document their own lives on their own terms, not as subjects of someone else's lens. Free, like every Newberry show.

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