Although nothing can replace actually seeing the exhibits in person, viewing them online has certain advantages, she says. For instance, if just the front page of a particular document is on view at the exhibit, the entire document can be perused online. The Web-site address will be <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits>.
The exhibition, which will run through May 2, 1998, will have nine sections: Slavery - The Peculiar Institution; Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period; Abolitionists, Antislavery Movements and the Rise of Sectional Controversy; The Civil War; Reconstruction and Its Aftermath; The Booker T. Washington Era; World War I and Postwar Society; The Depression, The New Deal and World War II; and The Civil Rights Era. It will include books, pamphlets, microfilm, manuscripts, newspapers, recordings, sheet music, posters, and film.
For more information on "African American Odyssey," call (202) 707-8000. For the hearing impaired, the number is (202) 707-6200 TTY.
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