“Urban Garden Rail”
by Saya Woolfalk
Explore responses to food access issues in segregated communities through this work of art.
“Hear the Lone Whistle Moan” / “copacetic”
by Alison Saar
View two pieces paying homage to the Harlem Renaissance.
“PARADE”
by Derek Fordjour
View an homage to historic parades through Harlem in this mosaic created in the New York City subway system.
“Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines”
by Faith Ringgold
View a fantastical homage to Harlem history through this work of art in the New York City subway.
“Great Waves of Immigration”
by Carmen Lizardo
Explore the history of Afro-Caribbean migration to the US through this mosaic, installed in the New York City subway system.
Grave Effects of the Great Migration
by Jonathan Lee, Duke University
Explore some of the health outcomes of the Great Migration.
Foreign-born Population from Africa by State, 2000
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Explore the further diversification of African American demographics through these maps.
Immigrants from the Caribbean Admitted to the US, 1989–2001
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize the shift in the Caribbean American demographics at the end of the twentieth century.
Both Black and Disabled: Intersectional Experiences
by Jenifer L. Barclay
Explore the history of stigmatization of, and resiliency among, Black disabled people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Freedmen’s Bureau and African American Families
by Justene Hill Edwards
Understand the roles the Freedmen’s Bureau played in supporting African American families and communities.
Immigrants from Selected African Countries, 1989–2002
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize African emigration to the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
“Nichelle Nichols: Woman on a NASA Mission”
by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Explore Nichols’s role in diversifying the space shuttle program.
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