A remarkable collection of portraits is on display at the University of Virginia and will soon begin a tour of schools, churches and community centers around the state. It shows about 100 African-Americans who lived in central Virginia at the start of the 20th century. Sandy Hausman had a look and filed this report.
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During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people in distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.