Beginning with the World’s Columbian Exposition also known as the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, a national event held to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas Black people and culture were misrepresented and their achievements were not fairly showcased. Forty years later, at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933 Black people were discriminated against. However in 1940, the American Negro Exposition was created as the first ever Black World’s Fair by James W. Washington Jr. that marked the 75th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also known as the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, the exposition was the catalyst for positive Black representation in America on the precipice of the long Civil Rights Movement. My project will take the form of a multimedia exhibition that will feature archival images from the exposition that captured Black achievement since the end of slavery. The images include artwork such as paintings, drawing, music, sculpture, posters, poetry and literature. Join me as we rediscover this groundbreaking exhibition as well as how key figures like Washington and Truman K. Gibson Jr. played a unique and unsung role in the Civil Rights Movement. Civil rights for people of African descent encompasses a series of numerous social reform movements. You will view through art how Black people sought to seek ways to amplify their voices to fight discrimination, degradation and the overall “whitewashing” of African American history. The World’s Fairs were national events that effectively ignored, segregated and underrepresented more than most of the United States and the African diaspora.