In celebration of Black History Month we direct your attention to two Labor Arts exhibits
Civil Rights History Walks into the Classroom
and
Art in Crisis: Memory, Art and Race, 1911 - 1929
Below are highlights from our collections -- two extraordinary photographs from the civil rights movement, a mural celebrating black history, an anti-lynching leaflet from the 1930s, and four posters published by Bread and Roses, the cultural project of the hospital workers' union 1199/SEIU.
Other resources to consider:
IN MOTION: The African-American Migration Experience, an extraordinary online exhibition and collection of research materials from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
An excellent guide to materials for teaching black history from the American Labor Studies Center on their Black Labor History page.
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