Black Entrepreneurs of the 18th and 19th Centuries
An exhibition presented by a partnership between the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Museum of African American History.

LOCATIONS

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA
March – October 2008

Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston, MA
April – September 2008

CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS

American Antiquarian Society
Boston Athenaeum
Boston Public Library Music Department
Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collections of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Connecticut Historical Society
Fern Cunningham
Dover Public Library
Drexel University College of Medicine
P. Gabrielle Foreman
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Kenkeleba House
Lewis H. Latimer Society
League of Women in Community Service
Library of Congress
Lynn Museum and Historical Society
Museum of African American History
Museum of Fine Arts
Nantucket Historical Association
North Congregational Church, Lynn, Massachusetts
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Mechnig
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Paul Cuffe School
Peabody Essex Museum
Providence Art Club
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
Social Law Library
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tufts Library, Wayland
Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library, Rare Books
Westport Quaker Meeting

EXHIBITION TEAM

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Richard C. Walker III, Vice President and Community Affairs Officer
George Guild, Director of Economic Education
Melita Podesta, Project Coordinator, New England Economic Adventure
Heidi Furse, Graphic Designer
Dedalus Wainwright, Exhibit Designer
Ben Gramann, Exhibit Designer

Museum of African American History
Beverly A. Morgan-Welch, Executive Director
Chandra Harrington, Director of Collections and Interpretation
L’Merchie Frazier, Director of Education
Amber Moore, Collections Manager
Dr. Marion Kilson, Scholar
Dr. Lois A. Brown, Scholar
Dr. Juliet E. K. Walker, Scholar
Brandon Bird, Exhibit Designer