Words Like Freedom

February 2–September 15, 1990 

Attendees: 21,343

Lola Szladits’s final exhibition—a survey of Black literature, abolitionist literature, and African-Americana in the Berg Collection—was a collaboration with her friend and colleague, the activist and Black history scholar Richard Newman. Words Like Freedom drew primarily on the materials by Black authors and about the 19th-century Abolitionist movement and 20th-century Civil Rights Movement that existed in the Berg Collection at the time. 

About the catalog: 

Like the other exhibitions featured in this online exhibit, a companion catalog for this exhibition was published—but we have chosen not to excerpt directly from the catalog because of language and imagery that does not meet the standards of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility to which the Library is committed.