“We’re looking for things that will speak volumes about Black history,” says Bunch, who’s eager to launch a “Save Our African-American Treasures” campaign and showcase the “30-40 years of really good scholarship on issues of race and African-American culture.”
The treasures he’s looking for “might be something as simple as shoes that somebody wore on the march to Selma, the heels all worn,” he says. Or perhaps pieces of tarp that shielded desperate Hurricane Katrina victims or the homemade signs for help they waved to the world.
What some of these artifacts say to Bunch is that “despite what little we have, we sacrificed it all to change America.”
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