A True Likeness: Sharing Richard Roberts' Works | Carolina Stories - Episode 3

The Roberts family always wanted to do something with the historic photographs they had on hand. With the cooperation of both the Roberts family and the Columbia Museum of Art, the book A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts: 1920-1936 was published, along with an exhibit at the museum, to raise awareness of Richard Roberts' works. 

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The Roberts family always wanted to do something with the historic photographs they had on hand. With the cooperation of both the Roberts family and the Columbia Museum of Art, the book A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts: 1920-1936 was published, along with an exhibit at the museum, to raise awareness of Richard Roberts' works. 

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A True Likeness Learning Activity
Choose one of the photographs featured in the documentary, A True Likeness. Analyze the photograph using the prompts from the learning activity.
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A True Likeness: Introduction | Carolina Stories
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An old photograph taken sometime between 1912 and 1914 is found, and experts were told to visit a Miss Hattie May Cornwell, in the Arsenal Hill community of Columbia, S.C. She not only identified the...