2021 May 5, Aston Gonzalez, "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century"

Historian Aston Gonzalez discusses his book, "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century" (2020), which studies the lives of black activists who produced and circulated images to advance numerous black rights campaigns in the middle decades of the 19th century. Gonzalez identifies these artists as cultural producers who paired their activism and their artistry to make bold claims about the future of African Americans and the United States.