Claudette Colvin

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...

Barbara Johns

Barbara Johns 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...

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30″ 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...

bell hooks

bell hooks, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20′ 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...

Alice Ball

Alice Ball, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20″ 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...