Blakc History Exhbit Event

PILGRIM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

HOLDS BLACK HISTORY EXHIBIT EVENT

Sunday, February 18 at 11:15 am

THE ARTIST PRESENTS BACKGROUND OF HER MOVEMENT WORK

“Local People Move…in Duluth … Holmes County …Nationally”

an exhibit of documentary photography & posters from the 1960s to 2006

by Sue Sojourner



Writer, documentary photographer, and installations artist Sue Sojourner will meet and talk to those who gather at her exhibit on Sunday, the 18th. The public is invited to come and learn of her work and local Duluthians’ involvement in the ongoing movements for social justice.

The event will be held in Salter Hall adjoining the Sanctuary at the church building at 2310 East 4th Street , Duluth . Free and open to all interested viewers—church members and visitors—from 9am to 4pm on weekdays and on Sundays from 9:00 to 11:30, the exhibit will be displayed there through Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Selected from the 70+-piece show—“On Dr. King’s 78th Birthday”—that opened in The Small Gallery of Washington Studios Artist Cooperative on Martin Luther King Day, the exhibit at Pilgrim is only slightly smaller and contains some items not shown at the Washington building, where hundreds of schoolchildren and adults viewed it as they gathered before the King Day march and during the remainder of January.

Set on two easels that fill three walls, the exhibit showcases Sojourner’s most recent work and introduces the first pieces in her current project on Duluth ’s Local Activists:

(1) her two portraits and text, done in Nov2006, of Duluth-born neighborhood activist and civil rights elder Maxine Taylor and

(2) her still-evolving photo collage, also shot in Nov2006, but in Selma and Montgomery , where a large contingent of peace & justice activists from Duluth conjoined Dr. King’s concerns for both civil rights and peace into current actions with others. After a five-day march across Alabama , they joined 1000s for the annual SOA (School of the Americas ) Protest at Ft. Benning .

For more information or to arrange display of the exhibit as it tours Duluth-area schools, secular and religious organizations, contact the church office at 724-8503 or Sue Sojourner at susojo1@callta.com 726-0341.