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Toy and Miniature Museum to host Tiya Miles

Join The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures on February 6th and 7th, 2025, for a research symposium on the historical significance of Black dolls in America, c. 1850-present. This symposium is part of programming for the exhibition Portraits of Childhood: Black Dolls from the Collection of Deborah Neff, on view through March 3, 2025, and will feature a lecture by keynote speaker Dr. Tiya Miles.

February 6  •  6pm
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Toy and Miniature Museum to host Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is the author of eight books, including four prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. Her latest work is the biography Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes, including the Cundill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. All That She Carried was named A Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, The Atlantic, Time, and more.

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National Museum Of Toys And Miniatures, Speakers & Lecture Series

Date

  
Thursday, February 6  •  6pm

Contact

The National Museum of Toy and Miniatures
  info@toyandminiaturemuseum.org
  (816) 235-8000
  https://toyandminiaturemuseum.org/

Location

  Student Union, 5100 Cherry St, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA

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