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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.
A collection of 10,000 stereotype-defying images documenting Black life in Central Virginia will be on display at UVA.
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.
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The collection has the power to change the historical narrative of Black life in Central Virginia during the 19th and early 20th century.
The Holsinger Collection exhibit Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift features photographs taken by well-known Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger.