by caroljacobsen.org | Oct 16, 2023 | Art, Doing the Right Thing, Fighting for Equality, Paintings, WOCAA Book One
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....
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 31, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
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...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 4, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Barbara Johns, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20″ Barbara Johns, 2022 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...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 4, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Josephine Baker started her career performing vaudeville in New York and later was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, Siren of the Tropics. She went on to perform her vaudeville numbers in Paris and decided to stay, to leave the racism of...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 3, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
1958-2021 Both an intellectual and a person who helped people pursue ‘right relations’ to others, bell hooks wrote more than 30 books on race, feminism and class. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell took her pen name from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell...
by caroljacobsen.org | Aug 2, 2022 | Fighting for Equality
Alice Augusta Ball overcome the racial and gender barriers of her time to become the first woman and African-American to graduate with a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii. At 23 she became the first woman chemistry teacher there. As a research...
