Fear: Ku Klux Klan, Sycamore from 2016-2022
Unfortunately, the fear connected to the Klan is not part of our distant past. While...
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Jacob Van Loon “Parlor View”
About the work: This work represents the forceful limitations of racial segregation as seen in...
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Juan Molina Hernández “the home they built, a site of resistance”
About the work: When considering what to create for this piece, I kept thinking about...
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FourPoets, OneMic “Multiple Titles (on video), 2021”
About the work: FourPoets, OneMic would like to thank the DeKalb County History Center for...
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Community: Local Latinx Culture
When migrant Latinx families permanently settled in DeKalb County, they were not formally segregated like...
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Community: New Hope Missionary Baptist Church
Pastor Leroy Mitchell served at the North Avenue Baptist church in 1986. A year later,...
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Community: The Israel of God’s Church, White Horse Army
The Israel of God’s Church, White Horse Army [1] was first established in St. Louis,...
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Hope: Latino Migration Story
A second wave of migration in DeKalb County started in the 1960s. This group was...
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Hope: Black Migration Story
World War I cut the stream of Europeans coming to Northern factories, and employers turned...
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