DuSable Museum unveils exhibit of African American experience

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Saturday, August 29, 2015
The "Freedom, Resistance and the Journey Toward Equality" exhibit opened Friday.
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's DuSable Museum unveiled a new exhibit Friday that is 200 years in the making.

It's called "Freedom, Resistance and the Journey Toward Equality."

Officials said it's designed to take visitors on a historic journey through the African American experience.

Artifacts on display spotlight the transatlantic slave trade, the Civil Rights Era and black power movements.

A new exhibit opened at the DuSable Museum in Chicago.