On a word, an exhibit on the use of political leverage of the Rhode Island African American community to secure the right to vote.

Frederick Douglass wrote:  “We cared nothing for the Dorr party on the one hand nor the ‘law and order’ party on the other.  What we wanted and what we labored to obtain, was a constitution free from the narrow, selfish, and senseless limitation of the word white”

second floor, Library through the month of February 2008