LaborArts


Black History Month 2011

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. 

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Photograph
by Bob Adelman, Birmingham, 1963

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Photograph
by Burt Berinsky, Selma, 1965

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Painting / mural
Mural by Lucy Mahler

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Leaflet / pamphlet
Anti-lynching leaflet

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Poster
Painting by Marshall Arisman

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Poster
Painting by Audrey Flack

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Poster
Painting by Jacob Lawrence

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Painting / mural
Painting by Sibylle Pfaffenbichler

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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