See Past Exhibits in 3D
Virtual Tours
Explore current and past exhibits at the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum with a high-fidelity three-dimensional tour. Control your experience by moving through the space using the indicators located on the floor. Simply click on the translucent white circle to move. Be sure to read the material on the walls and zoom in to examine any photos or objects your want to get a closer look at.
Past Exhibits at Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum
The Back Door
Between the 1920s and the mid-1960s, African American domestic workers were the catalysts who blurred the lines of social order by place and race.
The Back Door investigates the impact and emotions of these African American female domestic workers and the white families for whom they worked during the Jim Crow era in the Deep South.
*Due to its use of direct quotes and authentic historical content, this exhibit may not be suitable for younger audiences.
(Content includes violence and graphic language)
Segregation. Integration. Assimilation.
African American children in Oconee County walked more than two hours one-way down lonely dirt roads and deserted railroad tracks, road buses up to 35 miles one-way, and studied from used books discarded from all-white schools. But their determination to make a better life for themselves and their families drove them forward to become an educated community of doctors, lawyers, teachers, and business owners.
Segregation. Integration. Assimilation. explores the questions and outcomes of the 100-year African American education evolution during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Oconee County through the lens of local history-makers.
Colored Soldiers
Utilizing A War on Two Fronts, a traveling exhibit produced by the Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University, Colored Soldiers explores the relationship between African American soldiers and the United States military.