Exhibition Honors Women's Role in Civil Rights Fight

Exhibition Honors Women's Role in Civil Rights Fight

February 3, 2012 8:50am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Social Media Editor

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A national exhibit honoring the African American women who led the civil rights battle in the United States makes its last stop in Washington Heights Saturday. 

“Freedom Sisters,” a traveling collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and Cincinnati Museum Center, features the stories of “key 19th century historical figures” and “contemporary leaders who have fought for equality for people of color.” 

The multimedia project, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company Fund, toured 11 cities throughout the country since it launched in March 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio, before coming to the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center.

“Much of our national memory of the civil rights movement is embodied by male figureheads whose visibility in boycotts, legal proceedings and mass demonstrations dominated newspaper and television coverage in the 1950s and 1960s,” reads a description of the exhibit. 

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