‘Black Cowboys: An American Story' Exhibit Opens This Weekend at the African American Museum of Dallas – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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Historical exhibit featuring a black-and-white photograph of a man in cowboy attire displayed on a vertical panel. The adjacent panel, part of the African American Museum's collection, contains text, and a partial image of a tree is also visible. This showcases an intriguing chapter in the American Story of Black Cowboys.

For the next several months, part of the second floor of the African American Museum of Dallas will be home to “Black Cowboys: An American Story,” which highlights the history of Black cowboys in Texas and across the country.

The free exhibit displays pictures, artifacts, documents and films that provide insight into the untold stories of Black men, women and children, enslaved and free, who worked on ranches and took part in cattle drives.

Marvin Dulaney Ph.D., Deputy Director and Chief Operations Officer at the…