Student creates online museum to explore African experience in America

Theater major Iesha Thornton, winner of Temple's 2010 Creative Arts, Research and Scholarship award, created SlaveryMuseum.org, a virtual museum that traces the history of Africans in America. "We don't understand the concept of how race came to be," said Thornton. "I wanted to explore and expose the methodology behind a peculiar institution." The site's current virtual exhibit is "Portraits of Protests," focusing on the anti-slavery movement in Philadelphia. Thornton put her theater training to work for the project; when they arrive at the site, visitors will hear a recording of Thornton's reading of an abolitionist poem by John Pierpoint. (Story is on p. 7 of issue available at link above.)
March 17, 2011 | Diverse: Issues in Higher Education