The Mobile Medical Museum will present "Dreaming at Dawn: African Americans and Health Care, 1865-1945," an original exhibit that tells the story of African-American medical practitioners in Mobile during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras.
The exhibition will open Sept. 7, 2018, and will be on view through July 2019, in the Mary Elizabeth and Charles Bernard Rodning Gallery of the museum.
"Dreaming at Dawn" draws from the museum’s own collection as well as rarely seen photographs and artifacts on loan from other local collections. The centerpiece of the exhibit will be a new cast-iron sculptural portrait of Dr. James A. Franklin Sr., one of Mobile’s earliest and most distinguished African-American physicians, created by local sculptor April Livingston.
The Mobile Medical Museum is located at 1664 Springhill Avenue. For more information, visit www.mobilemedicalmuseum.org or call (251) 415-1109.
