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While Humanities Texas strives to provide the most accurate information, dates and times may occasionally change without notice. Please verify information with venue.

To view all events and exhibitions for February–April 2010, visit our full events calendar.

Coastal Bend (including Houston area)

Exhibitions

Angleton
February 1–March 14, 2010: Jasper, Texas: The Healing of a Community in Crisis. This exhibition was organized by Dr. Ricardo Ainslie in collaboration with documentary photographer Sarah Wilson, and aided in part by a grant from Humanities Texas. The project presents Jasper's experience as a model for other communities while also facilitating healing in the town itself. Brazoria County Historical Museum, 100 East Cedar Street.

North Central (includes Dallas-Fort Worth metro area)

Exhibitions

Balch Springs
February 1–March 1, 2010: Black Art—Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art. This Humanities Texas exhibition features the work of forty-five artists, including unknown Africans and Haitians, through fifty-four photographs, two color posters, and concise texts. City of Balch Springs Library, 12450 Elam Road.

Burleson
January 1–February 28, 2010: The Road to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Featuring photographs, facsimiles of landmark documents, and quotations by Dr. King and others engaged in the struggle for civil rights, this Humanities Texas exhibition surveys the Civil Rights Movement from the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 through the 1990s. Burleson Public Library, 248 SW Johnson Avenue.

Dallas
January 29–April 20, 2010: Behold the People: R. C. Hickman's Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961. This is an exhibition by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. R. C. Hickman was a Dallas photographer whose thousands of images produced from 1949 to 1961 document aspects of life in an African American community in Texas. Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture, 100 South Houston St.

Denton
February 1–28, 2010: Africa in the Americas: Slavery in Spanish and Portuguese Realms. Between 1500 and 1800, millions of Africans sailed to the New World against their will, with almost ninety percent going to Spanish and Portuguese colonies. This Humanities Texas exhibition explores the lives of Africans during the first three centuries of the American enterprise, with particular emphasis on how the slave trade created the prosperity of the New World and stamped the evolving society with indelible aspects of African culture. Denton Public Library, 3020 North Locust Street.

Richardson
February 1–28, 2010: Black Art—Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art. This Humanities Texas exhibition features the work of forty-five artists, including unknown Africans and Haitians, through fifty-four photographs, two color posters, and concise texts. Richardson Public Library, 900 Civic Center Drive.

South Texas

Events

Laredo
February 4–5, 2010: "History in Song." Charles Holt will survey African American musical traditions by performing songs, ballads, hymnals, and spirituals. In conjunction, Holt will deliver a public lecture for those interested in musical and dramatic careers and participate in an informal panel discussing African American culture and history. Texas A&M International University Theater, 5201 University Blvd. Contact Bede Leyendecker: 956-326-2649.

Exhibitions

Weslaco
February 1–28, 2010: The Road to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Featuring photographs, facsimiles of landmark documents, and quotations by Dr. King and others engaged in the struggle for civil rights, this Humanities Texas exhibition surveys the Civil Rights Movement from the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 through the 1990s. Weslaco Museum, 515 S. Kansas.

Outside Texas

Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 5–March 5, 2010: The Road to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Featuring photographs, facsimiles of landmark documents, and quotations by Dr. King and others engaged in the struggle for civil rights, this Humanities Texas exhibition surveys the Civil Rights Movement from the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 through the 1990s. African American Performing Arts Center, 310 San Pedro Blvd. NE.