This course examines how African American artists, activists, and thinkers have utilized American Constitutionalism as a basis for arguments in support of Black freedom, from the U.S. founding to abolition and from emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement.

Join the Rosenbach Museum & Library and GALAEI for a celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York that witnessed an explosion of achievement by Black artists working in many genres.