As we continue to discuss the Black history within Art history, this project expands upon what we know and includes what has been omitted. Look for complimentary programming on our Calendar of Events throughout the year.
Looking at history from a unique vantage point, the daily project offers viewers insight into what is commonly known as Black History Month. We should emphasise not Negro History, but the Negro in History. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hatred and religious prejudice". Motivated by Carter. As a daily meditation on Black History, each artwork blends and incorporates new or obscure information and data into depictions of well-known and unfamiliar icons within the black historical cosmos.
The anti-lynching movement was a civil rights movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used as a tool to repress African Americans. The anti-lynching movement reached its height between the s and s. A large part of the movement was composed of women's organizations.
Such as Ida B. The movement was composed mainly of African Americans who tried to persuade politicians to put an end to the practice, but after the failure of this strategy, they pushed for anti-lynching legislation.
Costigan and Robert F. Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", was an enslaved African American who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in March , gaining freedom when he reached the Union camp near Baton Rouge. He became known as the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. Abolitionists distributed these carte de visite photographs of Gordon throughout the United States and internationally to show the abuses of slavery. Gordon escaped in March from the 3,acre 12 km 2 plantation of John and Bridget Lyons, who owned him and nearly forty other slaves at the time of the census.
