Jessica B. Harris discusses her recent book, Vintage Postcards from the African World with Kelly Navies, Oral History Museum Specialist. Hear about Dr. Harris’s love of postcards and the stories they tell as she shares postcards from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States from the early decades of the last century. 

Photographic postcard of Senator Henry Hall Faulkner

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Activities

These activities, inspired by the Museum’s collection and scholarship, invite you to share your stories about who you are and where you come from.  

 

Please share your postcards!

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Picture postcard of women pulping cocoa in Jamaica

No. 5 Pulping Cocoa, Jamaica

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
MAA Symposium
©Nelson Stevens. Artwork courtesy of Arlene Turner Crawford. Photograph courtesy of Rose Blouin.

Telling Tales of the Diaspora was planned in concert with Making African American: A Virtual Symposium on Immigration and the Changing Dynamics of Blackness.

This Community Day has been generously supported by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

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