Visions Toward Tomorrow: The African American Community in Oakland, 1890-1990, the permanent exhibition, is the fulfillment of a dream that was held dearly by the founders of the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO). Visions documents the historical accomplishments of generations of African Americans in Oakland from the era of pioneering and settlement to those eras of community formation, development of the press, establishment of local churches, and creation of a lasting legacy of music and the arts.

At the same time, while looking back at significant moments in the history of Oakland’s African American community, Visions also peeks ahead at the horizon. Via an interactive multimedia database of more than fifty contemporary current and former residents, visitors are provided insight, inspiration, comparisons and contrasts between Oakland’s past and its present. You are invited to take the journey.  For a visual tour of the installation of Visions Toward Tomorrow please click on the following link http://www.aamlo.net/finalinstall/index.html.  Tell us what you think.