The Rock County Community Library is host to a photo gallery from the Diane and Alan Page Collection.
The photo collection called “Testify: Americana Slavery to Today” will be on display through May 12.
The collection renews the personal call to action by the Pages.
According to a press release by the collection organizers, the Pages created “Testify” in 2018 to better understand racial divide and that the U.S. was built on white supremacy and the lies of racial difference.
“Before reconciliation, there must be truth – and the truth can be ugly,” Alan Page said. “But we cannot reconcile and move forward if an increasingly louder group of people continue to deflect, minimize and sweep history under the rug.”
The series of photographs depict actual pieces in the private collection of Alan Page and his late wife, Diane.
Included among the pieces are photographs of Jim Crow signage, public slave sale announcement, real estate tokens and the Ghetto Game.
“We want as many people as possible to have direct access to this information so they can form their own opinions — and these objects are facts,” said Georgi Page-Smith, Alan Page’s daughter and director of the collection.
“What folks choose to do with these facts is obviously up to them, but we hope they will create more understanding and help us move beyond the divisiveness we’ve seen lately.”
The traveling photo display is a result of the Greater River Regional Library System, who worked with Page-Smith to bring a smaller traveling version of “Testify” to all of Minnesota.
This display is currently set up in the Rock County Library basement.
The display will be in the Edgerton Public Library from May 15-31.