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 A Family Story: Images from the Pope House Museum

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​Photography is a powerful tool used to preserve moments since its creation in 1824. Particularly, African Americans used photography to create their own legacy and to affirm their own senses of beauty, self-worth, and belonging. The camera and the rapidly changing technology of producing images became important for black families to document who they were, their progress, and successes.
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These photographs from the Pope House Museum Collection reveal more than a century of African Americans' efforts to use photographs to confront the negative images promoted in a segregated South. Within the frames are both intimate and formal moments of men, women, and children struggling for equality in the city of Raleigh and beyond.

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