CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
May 6, 2015

Join us for the opening of

Changing America

On display at the Brown RISD Hillel First Floor Gallery
The Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center
80 Brown Street | Providence, RI 02906

Thursday, May 7

4-8 PM Exhibition open house & reception: Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963

5:30 PM Remarks by Prof. Françoise Hamlin: “Freedom's Promissory Note"
7 PM Unveiling of the online exhibition “Changing America: Rhode Island"

Open May 7-June 10, 2015
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday: 9am-10pm
Saturdays: 12pm-8pm Sundays: 12pm-6pm
 

Friday, May 8 | 12 PM

Lunch talk with Prof. Michael Vorenberg: When Should History Say That Slavery Ended in the United States?

IN THE NEWS

Smithsonian’s Changing America comes to Brown

April 30, 2015

Changing America, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, explores the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the 1963 March on Washington. The exhibit, at Brown/RISD Hillel, is hosted by Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice from May 7 through June 10, 2015.

Read more.

Author Sarah McCoy Debuts New Novel in RI

May 4, 2015

The New York Times bestselling author launches The Mapmaker's Children at Brown University.

Read more in Rhode Island Monthly.