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| Visions of our 44th President Barack Obama Visions of our 44th President is a collective sculptural show created to recognize and celebrate the historical significance of the first African American President of the United States.
The exhibition will debut at the Wright Museum in July 2012, and will travel to prestigious museums, universities, libraries and galleries across the country. At the conclusion of the tour, the collection will become a part of the Wright Museum's permanent collection. of African American History
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| May 4, 1961 Seven blacks and six whites left Washington, DC on two public buses and headed south to test the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation in interstate bus and rail stations was unconstitutional.
This was the beginning of the Freedom Rides. ![]() John Lewis Freedom Rider |
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