African Americana

35 x 46 1/2 in. printed cotton muslin banner with brass grommets in each corner. 

There had been a Freedom Train in 1947-1949 that became entangled in "Jim Crow" laws in the South, when some states refused to allow Blacks and whites to view the exhibit together, as the planners specified. The train ended up skipping many stops in these segregated states. 

A second Freedom Train was planned for the national Bicentennial in 1975-76. It toured all 48 contiguous states with 500 treasures of Americana. Since it was after the passage of much civil rights legislation of the 1960s, the issues that plagued the first train did not arise in 1975.