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In the 19th century, Harrisburg's Eighth Ward was an important stop on the Pennsylvania Underground Railroad but filled with "Wanted" posters. The ward was dismantled after the City Beautiful Movement. The 2024 Homecoming Jubilee for Democracy exhibition reinterpret the "Wanted" posters as a testimony to those change agents who inhabited and visited the Eighth Ward and to the amendments that created wider freedoms. The exhibition was set up in 2024 at Harrisburg's Amtrak Station.
Publication Date
2024
Document Type
Poster
Keywords
African Americans, 19th Amendment, Harrisburg, Commonwealth Monument Project, A Gathering at the Crossroads, Digital Harrisburg, Center for Public Humanities
Disciplines
African American Studies | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Kern, Isabella, "2024 Homecoming Jubilee for Democracy Posters" (2024). Jubilee for Democracy. 2.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/jubilee/2
Comments
This item was developed and published for the 2024 Homecoming Jubilee for Democracy, in collaboration with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project, with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program. The 2024 Homecoming Jubilee for Democracy was sponsored by M&T Bank, Amtrak and PA Department of General services, and produced by Mr. Lenwood Sloan (Executive Director of the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project), Mrs. Yvonne Hollins (IIPT-CMP Stewardship Co-Chair), Hon. Gloria Martin Robers (IIPT-CMP Homecoming Co-Chair), and Mr. Robert Welsh (Banner and Exhibition Project Manager).