Exhibits
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
January 21 - March 5, 2004
About the Exhibit
The Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center is very proud to host the traveling panel exhibit "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation." Coordinated by the American Libraries Association Public Programs Office, the Alvin Sherman Library is one of only forty libraries in the United States to host the exhibit, and the only library in the State of Florida to do so. Also on display is Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era, a traveling panel exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Items from local collectors will be on display as well.
In conjunction with the exhibit, both the Alvin Sherman Library and the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center of the Broward County Libraries are holding a series of related events including lectures by scholars in the field, activities for children and roundtable debates.
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation reexamines President Lincoln's efforts toward the abolition of slavery during the Civil War in light of the latest scholarship in the field. The major purpose of the exhibit is to open a discussion among visitors about slavery in the United States, its abolition and its relation to African American civil rights after the Civil War. The exhibit is centered on Lincoln's role in these events and his beliefs about what he was doing. Separate sections of the exhibition focus on young Lincoln's America, the House dividing, war for the Union, the Emancipation Proclamation, the role of black soldiers in the Civil War, and the final months of the Civil War and Lincoln's life.
The exhibit consists of two six-section, 75-foot-long panels that contain reproductions of rare historical documents, period photographs, and illustrative material, such as engravings, lithographs, cartoons, and political ephemera drawn from the collections of the renowned Huntington Library and The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
"Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" has been organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, New York, in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. This exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition and related programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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