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The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell that is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [2] It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899 – February 2, 1979 [1]) was an American painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. [2] He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery. [3]
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.
Pippin was the first Black American artist to be the subject of a monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America of 1947. [1] He has since been the subject of three major retrospective exhibitions, several scholarly books and articles, a book of poetry, [22] and several children's books. [23] Horace Pippin.
The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African American landscape artists in Florida. Two of the original artists, Harold Newton, and Alfred Hair, received training from Alfred “Beanie” Backus. It is believed they may have created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings.
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African-American-led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. [3] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. [4]
During his time at the Otis Art Institute, White was a mentor for many young Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Richard Wyatt Jr., David Hammons, and Alonzo Davis. [6] [9] [24] Marshall reflected that “Under [his] influence I always knew that I wanted to make work that was about something: history, culture, politics, social issues