How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change
- Written by Samantha Hill, 2019 - 2021 Joyce Bock Fellow at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan and current graduate student at U-M School of Information, University of Michigan
Jubilee singers at Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, pose for
promotional photograph, circa 1871.William L. Clements LibraryFrederick Douglass is perhaps best known as an abolitionist and intellectual. But he was also the most photographed American of the 19th century. And he encouraged the use of photography to promote social change for...
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