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Pathway to Freedom Exhibit
An Exhibit for Students by Students

The Dallas Civil Rights Museum debuted The Pathway to Freedom Exhibit on January 15, 2015.  The exhibit focuses on six areas:

  • The Underground Railroad Faces of Freedom
  • The Trail of Tears Trail Heroes
  • The Civil Rights Movement History Makers
  • The 1921 Greenwood Race Riot Survivors (The Black Wall Street)
  • The Transatlantic Slave Trade of Enslaved Africans
  • The Civil Liberties of the Aborigines of Australia

In 2004, The International NET XChange Group went on an academic tour called “Pathway to Freedom,” that focused on the Underground Railroad and the Civil Rights Movement. In 2007, the group traveled to Africa (Monrovia, Liberia and the central and eastern regions of Ghana) that focused on visits to orphanages, to the Panafest in Ghana, to the slave castles in Cape Coast and Elimina. In 2012, the group traveled to Tulsa, OK to learn about the Trail of Tears and the Black Wall Street.  This tour focused on the Five Civilized Tribes (the Indian Removal in 1830) and the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot in the Greenwood community.  In 2019, we completed the final area of the Pathway to Freedom Exhibit when the group traveled to Australia to learn of the stories of the civil liberties of the Aborigines people who were assisted by people in the Civil Rights Movement.

Replicas of this exhibit was commissioned by the City of DeSoto for their historic Nance Farm Museum.  NET XChange is looking to expand the reach of the exhibit by placing replicas of the exhibit in museums in cities around the United States.