"Let Resistance Be Your Motto"

at The Underground Railroad Center

With the initial rallying cry of abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, “Let your motto be Resistance! Resistance! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance”, African Americans specifically have been inspired to rise up and emancipate themselves.

Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits highlights individuals whose passion, determination and talent played an influential role in shaping notions of race and status over the past 150 years. With 69 matted and framed modern prints in the traveling exhibition and over 100 portraits in the exhibition catalogue, the exhibition’s focus on the varieties of resistance has inspired visitors of all generations and backgrounds.

Through the selected photographs of photography historian and guest curator Deborah Willis, the diversity of creative and courageous ways in which African Americans resisted, accommodated, redefined, and struggled through American history is impressively reflected not only by the subjects, but by the photographers themselves.

When: Through June 19
Cost: Museum Admission
Location:50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202,
Phone: 513.333.7500 or Toll Free: 877.648.4838