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How Jim Crow Era Fueled the Harlem Renaissance

‘WE BUILD OUR TEMPLES’

A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows artists from the Harlem Renaissance taking ownership of Black history.

Brooke Leigh Howard
Brooke Leigh Howard 

Race and Identity Reporter

Aaron Douglas' painting Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction at The Met.
Aaron Douglas/Anna-Marie Kellen/Courtesy The Met
Brooke Leigh Howard

Brooke Leigh Howard

Race and Identity Reporter

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