At the closing of my solo show at Community Media Center of Marin, my talk ‘From Art Therapy to Social Justice Art’ was recorded on August 31, 2023. My next solo show will be February to March of 2024. The art opening TBD. I will also have a closing talk. This is a clip from… Continue reading Art Talk
Category: Women of Color and Accomplishment: Fighting for Equality
Women of Color and Accomplishment: Fighting for Equality. Book Two in the Women of Color and Accomplishment series.
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin 1939 – When Claudette was 15 years old, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in a racially segregated bus in Alabama. Colvin stood her ground because she felt it was her constitutional right after paying the fare. She was forcibly removed from the bus and… Continue reading Claudette Colvin
Barbara Johns
1935–1991 On April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns, a 16 year-old high school girl in Prince Edward County, Virginia, led her classmates in a strike to protest the substandard conditions at Robert Russa Moton High School. Her idealism, planning, and persistence ultimately garnered the support of NAACP lawyers Spottswood Robinson and Oliver Hill to take up… Continue reading Barbara Johns