‘Hateful Things’ exhibit on display at NIU’s Pick Museum through April 9

Items might make visitors uncomfortable, but ‘seeing them is incredibly important’

March 02, 2021 at 12:00 pm CST

Rachelle Wilson, curator at the Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, talks Wednesday at the museum about the opening panel of the exhibit "Hateful Things" that shows signs that were placed above everything from restrooms and drinking fountains to building entrances in order to reinforce the segregation of the races. The exhibit, which runs through April 9 at NIU, is created and circulated by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University and displays nearly 150 years of anti-Black/racist material, culture and imagery to serve as a reminder of America's racist past. (Mark Busch - mbusch@shawmedia.com/Mark Busch - mbusch@shawmedia.co)

DeKALB – Viewing some of the items in the latest exhibit at Northern Illinois University’s Pick Museum might make visitors uncomfortable.

The traveling exhibit “Hateful Things,” created and circulated by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University, will be on display at the Pick Museum of Anthropology, Cole Hall 114, through April 9.

Katrina J.E. Milton

Award-winning reporter and photographer for Shaw Media publications, including The Daily Chronicle and The MidWeek newspapers in DeKalb County, Illinois, since 2012.