Tenement Museum Tells the Story of a Black Family in 1860s New York

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 19, 2024

A new permanent exhibit at the Tenement Museum does something the museum has never done before: it tells the story of a Black family living in lower Manhattan in the 1860s. Museum president Annie Polland and historian and scholar Leslie Harris join to discuss the exhibit, A Union of Hope: 1869.

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