UMBC’s Library Gallery will present a new exhibition in September that reflects what it meant to experience leisure and travel as a Black American during the Jim Crow era.

“ Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure During the Jim Crow Era ” is an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Patton and will be on view from Sept. 2, 2025 through Dec. 19, 2025 at UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery . Using photographs, oral histories, audio, video, and memorabilia, the exhibition will create an in-depth and multi-faceted narrative reflecting Black tourism and leisure in communities along the mid-Atlantic region from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Photographer unknown, Boy in Toy Car, 1950s. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Burns Collection & Archive.

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