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Article: Life on plantations as lived by the slaves: Controversy fades as exhibit is big hit at MLK library.(Washington Weekend)(Museums)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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When John Michael Vlach, a George Washington University professor, introduced the exhibit "The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation" at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library, one question got a large laugh from the audience.
Had Mr. Vlach, the exhibit's curator, refused to include any images out of fear that they might be "politically charged?"
Mr. Vlach was at the library, speaking to an overflow audience about the exhibit he curated, because it unexpectedly had turned out to be politically charged. After a tour of six university museums and historic homes, the exhibit, which presents plantation life from the slave's point of view, was mounted at ...