The African American Mosaic
The African American Mosaic
This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study
of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to
the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western
hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints,
photographs, music, film, and recorded sound. Moreover, the African-American Mosaic represents the start of a new kind of
access to the Library's African-American collections, and, the Library trusts, the beginning of reinvigorated research and
programming drawing on these, now systematically identified, collections.
This exhibit is but a sampler of the kinds of materials and themes covered by the publication and the Library's collections. Many
of the exhibit......
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