"Freedom's Sisters" exhibit opens in Chicago

"Freedom's Sisters" exhibit opens in Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) - An interactive exhibit chronicling the lives of 20 black women who played roles in the struggle for civil rights and equality has opened at a Chicago museum. "Freedom's Sisters" runs through April 4 at the "DuSable Museum of African American History":http://www.dusablemuseum.org/ on Chicago's South Side. The exhibit uses audio and includes the stories of leaders like Harriet Tubman who was famous for the Underground Railroad and journalist Ida B. Wells who led anti-lynching efforts. The traveling exhibit is a collaboration of the "Smithsonian Institution":http://www.si.edu/ and "Cincinnati Museum Center":http://www.cincymuseum.org/. It also includes C. Delores Tucker who was the country's first black secretary of state and audio of Barbara Jordan giving her keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. _Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed._