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Photography of the Civil Rights era will be the subject of an illustrated lecture at the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum on Wednesday, February 6, at 12:00 noon. Admission is free and open to the public.

Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, will present “Bearing Witness: Photography and the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968.” His discussion will be based on research for “Road to Freedom,” a major exhibition and catalogue forthcoming at the High, which has the nation’s most comprehensive holding of Civil Rights-related photographs. Cox will also discuss the role of photography in media culture during the 1960s.

Cox holds degrees in art history and in the history of photography from the University of Manchester and the University College of Wales. He is the author of several books and articles on photography. Cox was a curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles before his appointment to the High in 2005.

The lecture is part of New Perspectives: Alabama Art in the Open, a series of lectures held in communities around the state. The series is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Auburn University with major funding from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The program is sponsored locally by the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum. For more information, contact 334-241-8615.

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Montgomery, AL- Come down to Old Alabama Town and join us for our 3rd Annual Black History Celebration. This year’s event will be Sunday, February 24th at 2:30 pm in the Old Alabama Town Reception Center. This inspiring program will feature historian Daisybelle Thomas Quinney, portraying Sojourner Truth; the Floyd Elementary School choir; the Plantation Heirs gospel choir; and Sheyann Webb-Christburg as our speaker. Ms. Christburg is known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Smallest Freedom Fighter” and co-author of Selma, Lord, Selma. African American artwork by Martha Baker will be on display in the Reception Center. Admission is free. For more information call 240-4500.

WHO: Old Alabama Town
WHAT: Black History Celebration
WHEN: Sunday, February 24th – 2:30 pm
WHERE: Old Alabama Town Reception Center
ADMISSION: Free

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Montgomery, AL- Come down to Old Alabama Town for a Quilt Share Day. The event will be Monday, January 28th from 10 am to 3 pm in the Old Alabama Town Reception Center. Sponsored by the Alabama Quilt Book Project, participants have the opportunity to bring their quilts, made between 1750 and 1950, to be documented and photographed. Some of the quilts will possibly be included in the upcoming Alabama Quilt Book. This event will be the last Quilt Share Day before the new book is published. For more information call (334) 240-4512.

WHO: Old Alabama Town
WHAT: Quilt Share Day-bring quilts made between the 1750-1950 for possible inclusion the Alabama Quilt Book
WHEN: Monday, January 26, 2008- 10 am to 3 pm
WHERE: Old Alabama Town Reception Center
ADMISSION: Free

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Montgomery, AL- Landmarks Foundation is on the road again-the Cultural Crossroads that is. Joined by co-sponsors the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Landmarks Foundation invites the public to join us for the continuation of the series that began in 2002. The symposium, Cultural Crossroads: A New Country will be Saturday, January 26th at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. The symposium will be from 8:30 am to 3:45 pm, and will focus on Alabama as a territory and state during the years 1800-1830.

A group of distinguished, informative and entertaining scholars will bring Alabama from 1800-1830 to life. Dr. Kathryn Braund will open the discussion with a reprise of an earlier program, while introducing the great changes beginning to take place as the Indians lose more and more of their homeland and autonomy. The landscape of Alabama itself, will be the topic of Dr. John Hall’s presentation, while Dr. Leah Atkins will discuss the settlers as they move onto the frontier. Dr. Harvey Jackson and Mark Dauber will shed light on early characters such as General Thomas Woodward and the fictional Simon Suggs. Dr. Angela Hudson, from Texas A&M will present “A Crowd of Strangers: Slaves and Settlers Move into the Creek Homeland.” Dr. Ed Bridges will conclude the presentations with the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette, and his visit to Montgomery and the southern part of Alabama in 1825. The MMFA will host an exhibition of related artworks for the symposium.

The day begins with registration and a complimentary breakfast at 8:30 am; the program begins at 9 am. A box lunch and refreshments throughout the day are included in the registration fees. For more information and registration please call Landmarks Foundation at (334) 240-4500.

Download the registration form here
WHO: Landmarks Foundation
WHAT: Cultural Crossroads Symposium
WHEN: Saturday, January 26, 2008- 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
WHERE: Montgomery Museum of Fine Art
ADMISSION: $35 for Landmarks, MMFA and Auburn Center for Arts and Humanities members; $40 for the general public; $22 for faculty and students.

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