For the month of February, the Wistariahurst Museum will display a poster exhibition: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, which is organized and distributed by the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library.

This exhibit chronicles the long strides forward, bruising setbacks, and heroic struggle for equality that took place during the early 1900’s Wistariahurst Museum curator, and Holyoke Historian, Penni Martorell, explains how this traveling exhibit found its place for Black History Month at the Wistariahurst Gallery.

Also, this exhibit will include local black history, with objects that are part of the collection of Black Holyoke, that has been a project led by scholar Erika Slocumb, to document the history of the black community in Holyoke and the Valley.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, opens on Monday February 6th and it will have a schedule of Mondays from 10:30am to 12:30pm and Tuesdays from 4:30pm-6:30pm. Also there will be opportunities for groups to visit by appointment. For more information you can visit: wistariahurst.org