Photography really came into its own during the Civil War. Before then, there were few photgraphers of anyone or thing and almost none of African Americans. Finding photographs which exist and using them to tell the heretofore “invisible” history of African Americans in the Greenbrier Valley is the mission of the “Invisible Roots and Legends: A Photographic View of African American History in Greenbrier Valley, West Virginia” exhibit.
Read more in the Friday, August 8, edition of the West Virginia Daily News.