Your local thrift store is a cornucopia of used clothes shoes and, housewares of every kind- a place to find that next delightful something.
But what thrift store customers don’t always see, is how it can be a repository for America’s racist past.
That’s the purpose of an exhibit at Renton’s History Museum, “Sorting Out Race.”
Director Elizabeth Stewart says the traveling exhibit from the Kauffman Museum in Bethel, Kansas, provokes challenging conversations about depictions of race and ethnicity for visitors.