About the Exhibit
(https://www.delart.org/exhibits/black_survival_guide/)
Black Survival Guide,: or How to Live Through a Police Riot, a series of fourteen large-scale retroreflective screen prints, interprets and employs archival documents from the Delaware Historical Society and photographs of the 1968 National Guard occupation of Wilmington taken by News Journal staff. Commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum from renowned conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, this work confronts gaps in our collective histories by centering lesser known stories in the search for truth. Viewers participate in the experience using direct light sources to reveal alternate images not visible to the naked eye.
Beneath or on top of the b/w photographs (depending on your view) are the pages from the eponymous pamphlet drafted and distributed by the "Northeast Conversation Association" (in the document) or the Northeast Conservation Association (NECA), which had active chapters throughout Wilmington, also mentioned during the oral history session with E. Poppa Rogers, Sr., whose mother was an active member at the time.