The traveling exhibition titled Black and White in Black and White, coming soon to the Greeley History Museum, features striking photographs attributed to African American photographer John Johnson. Using his neighborhood in Lincoln, Nebraska, as his canvas, Johnson crafted these images of his neighbors, friends, and family between 1910 and 1925.

While Johnson was busy capturing photographs, the town of Dearfield, Colorado, was thriving. Founders O.T. and Minerva Jackson established the town in 1910 as a place where Black people “should be given an opportunity to achieve a degree of independence through agriculture which they could not experience as long as they continued to sell their services to others for a daily wage.”

Join us as Holly Berg, Curator of Exhibits for the City of Greeley Museums, presents selected stories from the exhibition.

Black and White in Black and White: Images of Dignity, Hope, and Diversity in America is curated by Douglas Keister, presented with support from California State University, Chico, and traveled by Exhibit Envoy.